pneumonectomy

From pneumon- +‎ -ectomy.

• Rhymes: -ɛktəmi

pneumonectomy (plural pneumonectomies)

1. The surgical removal of all or part of a lung.
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 242:

     Evarts Graham [...] pioneered the pneumonectomy (the resection of the lung to remove tumors).

• pneumectomy
• pneumotomy (dated)

• pneumonectomize

• lobectomy
• segmentectomy