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lobectomy

noun/ləʊˈbɛktəmi/

C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

The surgical excision of a single lobe of the lung.

An upper lobectomy offered the best chance of cure for the localised carcinoma.

Topic: Respiratory in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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