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noun, plural -mies. Surgery.
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the operation of cutting into a lobe, as of the brain or the lung.
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lobotomy
1936, coined from lobe (in the brain sense) + medical suffix -tomy, from Gk. tome "a cutting," from temnein "to cut" (see tome). Fig. use is attested from 1953.
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Medical Dictionary
lobotomy lo·bot·o·my (lə-bŏt'ə-mē, lō-)
n.
Incision into a lobe.
The division of one or more nerve tracts in a lobe of the cerebrum.
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Science Dictionary
lobotomy  (lə-bŏt'ə-mē) Pronunciation Key
Surgical incision into the frontal lobe of the brain to sever one or more nerve tracts, a technique formerly used to treat certain psychiatric disorders but now rarely performed. |
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Cultural Dictionary
lobotomy [(luh-bot-uh-mee, loh-bot-uh-mee)]A surgical incision into one or more of the nerve masses in the front of the brain. A lobotomy may be performed for the relief of certain mental disorders, although it has been largely abandoned in favor of less radical treatments.
Note: Because people who have had a lobotomy often become quite passive after the operation, the term is often used to refer to someone who shows a lack of response or reaction: “She was so tired she just sat there as if she had been lobotomized.”
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