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Definition of Lobotomy
1. Noun. Surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes.
Generic synonyms: Psychosurgery
Specialized synonyms: Transorbital Lobotomy
Definition of Lobotomy
1. Noun. A surgical operation on the frontal lobe of the brain intent on treating certain mental illnesses. ¹
2. Noun. The severing of the prefrontal cortex from the thalamic region of the brain. ¹
3. Noun. The severing of the sympathetic nerve trunk. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lobotomy
1. a type of surgical operation [n -MIES]
Medical Definition of Lobotomy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lobotomy
Literary usage of Lobotomy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Less Hype, More Help: Reducing Juvenile Crime, What Works by Richard A. Mendel (2000)
"That's like choosing between aspirin or a lobotomy for a migraine."152 The vast
majority of cases referred to the juvenile court do not result in ..."
2. Dangerous Minds: Political Psychiatry in China Today and Its Origins in the by Robin Munro, Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry (2002)
"The most egregious practitioner was the American neurologist Walter Freeman, who
invented a technique known as "ice-pick lobotomy." which took no more than ..."
3. American Vulgar: The Politics of Manipulation Versus the Culture of Awareness by Robert Grudin (2006)
"And what I have always called jokingly the United States of Amnesia will be worse
than an amnesiac[;] it will have suffered a lobotomy, ..."
4. 54 by Wu Ming (2005)
"For example, there is no proof that Frances underwent a transorbital lobotomy.
The film simply skips the last twenty years of her life and 'career': two ..."
5. Frame and Generic Space by Bernard Leupen (2006)
"Koolhaas refers to this as 'the architectural equivalent of a lobotomy'.'42 According
to him it is impossible for a facade of a building in excess of a ..."
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