Definition of lobectomy in English:
lobectomy
nounPlural lobectomies ləʊbˈɛktəmiloʊˈbɛktəmi
mass nounSurgical removal of a lobe of an organ such as the thyroid gland, lung, liver, or brain.
Example sentencesExamples
- The patient underwent right hepatic lobectomy with total resection of the lesions based on surgical exploration and intraoperative ultrasound examination.
- Patients with peripheral tumors with or without metastases to hilar nodes are usually treated with surgical lobectomy or pneumonectomy.
- Seven days after the bronchoscopy the patient went to the operating room for a right lower lobe lobectomy and wedge biopsy of the right middle lung.
- The subjects were consecutive patients who required pneumonectomy or lobectomy for small peripheral lung nodules; they were not selected to represent an obstructed and nonobstructed group.
- The right middle lobe was emphysematous and a right middle lobectomy was performed.
- Human bronchi were obtained from lung resections or lobectomies and cultured as previously described.
Definition of lobectomy in US English:
lobectomy
nounloʊˈbɛktəmilōˈbektəmē
Surgical removal of a lobe of an organ such as the thyroid gland, lung, or liver.
Example sentencesExamples
- The subjects were consecutive patients who required pneumonectomy or lobectomy for small peripheral lung nodules; they were not selected to represent an obstructed and nonobstructed group.
- The patient underwent right hepatic lobectomy with total resection of the lesions based on surgical exploration and intraoperative ultrasound examination.
- Patients with peripheral tumors with or without metastases to hilar nodes are usually treated with surgical lobectomy or pneumonectomy.
- Seven days after the bronchoscopy the patient went to the operating room for a right lower lobe lobectomy and wedge biopsy of the right middle lung.
- Human bronchi were obtained from lung resections or lobectomies and cultured as previously described.
- The right middle lobe was emphysematous and a right middle lobectomy was performed.