lobectomy
noun
lobectomy is a noun meaning “The surgical removal of a lobe from an organ such as the lung or the brain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-O-B-E-C-T-O-M-Y, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lobectomy is lobectomies.
What does lobectomy mean?
noun
- 1
The surgical removal of a lobe from an organ such as the lung or the brain
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce lobectomy?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-lobectomy.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of lobectomy
- lobectomies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lobectomy?
Lobectomy appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does lobectomy come from?
From lobe + -ectomy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).