A lumpectomy is an operation in which a woman has a lump such as a tumour removed from one of her breasts, rather than having the whole breast removed.
lumpectomy in British English
(lʌmˈpɛktəmɪ)
nounWord forms: plural-mies
the surgical removal of a tumour in a breast
Word origin
C20: from lump1 + -ectomy
lumpectomy in American English
(lʌmˈpɛktəmi)
US
nounWord forms: plurallumˈpectomies
the surgical removal of a breast tumor with minimum removal of adjacent normal tissues
Word origin
lump1 + -ectomy
Examples of 'lumpectomy' in a sentence
lumpectomy
I thought that... maybe you thought I only had the tumor removed, a lumpectomy.