PREFRONTAL LOBOTOMY

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Meaning:

Surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes

Synonyms:

frontal lobotomy; leucotomy; leukotomy; lobotomy; prefrontal leucotomy; prefrontal leukotomy; prefrontal lobotomy

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Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("prefrontal lobotomy" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prefrontal lobotomy"):

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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