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Meaning of lungectomy | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/lʌŋˈɛktəmi/

Definitions

The removal of a lung.

informal

Examples

“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.”
“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.”
“Besides, Sadler's husband would perform an elective lungectomy on John if he ran around making that claim.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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