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pneumonectomy
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pneumonectomy [‚nü·mə′nek·tə·mē]
(medicine)
Surgical removal of an entire lung.
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Discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (1882-1952) At the end of the 19th century, romantic notions about tuberculosis were replaced by scientific ideas and products: vaccines and therapies, rest cures, tonics, pneumonectomies, lobectomies, thoracoplasties, "artificial" pneumothoracies, phrenic nerve crushings, plombage, pneumatic cabinet treatments, and antiseptic injections into the pleural spaces.
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followed, in order of decreasing frequency, by herniorrhaphy, laminectomy, cranlotomy, appendectomy, hysterectomy, reduction of fractures, thyroidectomies, cholecystectomies, and pneumonectomies.
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Her treatment regimen included amputation of the left leg above the knee and chemotherapy for the primary tumor and bilateral partial pneumonectomies and radiation therapy for metastatic disease.
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