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Etymology

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From bi- +‎ lobectomy.

Noun

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bilobectomy (plural bilobectomies)

  1. (surgery) Removal of two lobes of the right lung (middle plus right upper or lower)
    • 2015 July 25, Jong Ho Cho et al., “The prognostic importance of the number of metastases in pulmonary metastasectomy of colorectal cancer”, in World Journal of Surgical Oncology[1], volume 13, →DOI:
      The majority of surgeries were performed using wedge resection ( n  = 439, 71.4 %), followed by lobectomy ( n  = 109, 17.7 %), segmentectomy ( n  = 41, 6.7 %), precision excision ( n  = 20, 3.3 %), bilobectomy ( n  = 5, 0.8 %), and pneumonectomy ( n  = 1, 0.2 %).