pneumonolysis
/ˌnjuːməˈnɒlɪsɪs/Surgery
noun
The freeing of a lung from adhesions; (more fully intrapleural pneumonolysis) lysis of adhesions within the pleural cavity; (also) (in full extrapleural pneumonolysis) the surgical stripping of the parietal pleura and adherent lung from the chest wall; an instance of this.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in American Journal of Surgery. From pneumono- + -lysis.