English Explanatory Dictionary

surgically induced childhood

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An infantile personality resulting from lobotomy, once thought to be an interim stage toward maturation and recovery from the original condition that lobotomy had been used to treat.

Word forms

surgically induced childhood

Etymology

Coined by Walter Jackson Freeman II.

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