Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Surgical excision of a lobe, as of the lung.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun surgical removal of a lobe from any organ of the body (such as the lung or brain).
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- noun surgery The surgical removal of a
lobe from anorgan such as thelung or thebrain .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun surgical removal of a lobe from any organ of the body (as the lung or brain)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Just a month ago, she had to go back into the hospital for another week for a surgical procedure known as a lobectomy – to remove the scar tissue in the upper bronchus of her lung which had resulted in a lot of catastrophic coughing.
State of the Union Douglas Kennedy 2005
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That was for a single incident of adeno carcinoma (a lung lobectomy with complications requiring a second surgery to remove mrsa fluid congealed in my chest cavity).
Think Progress » Insurer Denies Life-Prolonging Treatment To Five-Year-Old Boy With Cancer 2010
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Our experienced pediatric surgeons can safely perform a thoracotomy and lobectomy in infants with minimal risk of morbidity, and thoracoscopic resection has been performed.
Bronchopulmonary sequestration and Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid 2010
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Similarly, removal of a malformed lung lobe would be called “thoracoscopic lobectomy.”
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Neonates with respiratory compromise due to a cystic lung lesion require prompt surgical resection, usually by lobectomy.
Bronchopulmonary sequestration and Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid 2010
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The finding that fetuses with hydrops are at very high risk for fetal or neonatal demise led to the performance of either fetal surgical resection of the massively enlarged pulmonary lobe (fetal lobectomy) for cystic/solid lesions or thoracoamniotic shunting for lesions with a dominant cyst.
Bronchopulmonary sequestration and Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid 2010
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Similarly, removal of a malformed lung lobe would be called “thoracoscopic lobectomy.”
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In a lobectomy, the surgeon removes only the section — called a lobe — that contains the lump.
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Your child will need either a lobectomy or a total thyroidectomy.
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She be having a lung-lobectomy and has a big worry.
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