Meaning of lungectomy | Babel Free

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⟳.”

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