leucotomy (redirected from leucotomies)

leu·kot·o·my also leu·cot·o·my  (l-kt-m)

n. pl. leu·kot·o·mies Chiefly British

A prefrontal lobotomy.

---

[leuko- (referring to the white matter of the brain) + -tomy.]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

leucotomy - surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes frontal lobotomy, leukotomy, lobotomy, 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