lo·bot·o·my (l -b t -m , l -)n. pl. lo·bot·o·mies Surgical incision into the frontal lobe of the brain to sever one or more nerve tracts, a technique formerly used to treat certain mental disorders but now rarely performed. |
lobotomy [ləʊˈbɒtəmɪ]
n pl -mies
1. (Medicine / Surgery) surgical incision into a lobe of any organ
2. (Medicine / Surgery) Also called prefrontal leucotomy surgical interruption of one or more nerve tracts in the frontal lobe of the brain: used in the treatment of intractable mental disorders
[from lobe + -tomy]
| lobotomy (l-bt-m) Surgical incision into the frontal lobe of the brain to sever one or more nerve tracts, a technique formerly used to treat certain psychiatric disorders but now rarely performed. |
lobotomy
surgical severing of certain nerve fibers in the frontal lobe of the brain, once commonly performed to treat intractable depression. Also called prefrontal lobotomy.
See also: Brain
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| Noun | 1. | lobotomy - surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes frontal lobotomy, leucotomy, leukotomy, prefrontal leucotomy, prefrontal leukotomy, prefrontal lobotomy psychosurgery - brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems transorbital lobotomy - a method of performing prefrontal lobotomy in which the surgical knife is inserted above the eyeball and moved to cut brain fibers |
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