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lungectomy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /lʌŋˈɛktəmi/

Etymology

From lung + -ectomy.

Meanings

1. (informal) The removal of a lung.
   • However, considering that it was Len's cabin, and that Len's body has just been found under Grant Glacier, and that Len underwent a radical lungectomy with a shotgun sometime in the past year, yeah, I'm pretty sure. 2003, Dana Stabenow, A Grave Denied, →ISBN, page 48:
   • Besides, Sadler's husband would perform an elective lungectomy on John if he ran around making that claim. 2017, Lyn Gala, Tap-Dancing the Minefields, →ISBN:
   • Six months after my father's diagnosis, after the lungectomy, after a good amount of time during which the cancer had been polite and stayed put in the neighborhood in which it had started, one of the lymph nodes under his jaw started to swell with the stuff. 2013, Ron Currie, Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles: A Novel, →ISBN:

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