AMYGDALOTOMY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Psychosurgery in which amygdaloid fibers that mediate limbic system activity are severed (in cases of extreme uncontrollable violence)

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Hypernyms ("amygdalotomy" is a kind of...):

psychosurgery (brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems)

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