lobotomy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically (neurosurgery), a procedure, now largely disused, involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and the thalamic region of the frontal lobe of the brain to treat certain mental illnesses.
An operation involving the severing of the sympathetic nerve trunk.
An act of removing or separating, and often disregarding or forgetting, something.

Pronunciation

/ləˈbɒtəmi/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lobotomy.wav /ləˈbɑtəmi/ [-ɾə-] LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-lobotomy.wav

Word forms

lobotomy lobotomies

Etymology

From lob(e) + -otomy (a variant of -tomy (suffix denoting a surgical incision)).

Synonyms

leucotomy

Derived words

ice-pick lobotomy lobotomisation lobotomization lobotomised lobotomized lobotomise lobotomize lobotomiser lobotomizer lobotomist lobotomite

Translations

Albanian: lobotomia Arabic: جراحة فصية Azerbaijani: lobotomiya Bashkir: лоботоми́я Basque: lobotomia Belarusian: лабатамія Bulgarian: лоботоми́я Catalan: lobotomia Chinese Mandarin: 腦葉切除術 /脑叶切除术 Chinese Mandarin: 前腦葉白質切除術 /前脑叶白质切除术 Czech: lobotomie Danish: lobotomi Danish: det hvide snit Dutch: lobotomie Esperanto: lobotomio Estonian: lobotoomia Finnish: lobotomia French: lobotomie West-Frisian: lobotomy Galician: lobotomía Georgian: ლობოტომია German: Lobotomie Greek: λοβοτομή Hebrew: לובוטומיה Hindi: मस्तिष्कखंडछेदन Hungarian: lobotómia Icelandic: hvítuskurður Indonesian: lobotomi Italian: lobotomia Japanese: ロボトミー Korean: 뇌엽 절제술 Latvian: lobotomija Lithuanian: lobotomija Macedonian: лобото́мија Malay: lobotomi Maltese: lobotomija Norwegian Bokmål: lobotomi Norwegian Nynorsk: lobotomi Persian: لوبوتومی Polish: lobotomia Portuguese: lobotomia Romanian: lobotomie

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