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Meanings of leucotomy in English

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

      lobotomia
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      Examples for "lobotomy"
      Examples for "lobotomy"
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      With various refinements, this became standard operating procedure for the prefrontal lobotomy.
      Wired
      2
      Everyone agrees that President George Bush's lobotomy has been a tremendous success.
      The Guardian
      3
      Dad was probably going to think I'd had a lobotomy or something.
      The Duff
      4
      He prepares to undergo a cingulotomy, an operation similar to a lobotomy.
      The new yorker
      5
      HAL's lobotomy monologue in the book mentions his first instructor, Dr. Chandra.
      Wired
      1
      Firstly, to explore the past media coverage of leukotomy, and to examine its widespread acceptance and the neglect of ethical issues in its depiction.
      Pubmed
      1
      With various refinements, this became standard operating procedure for the prefrontal lobotomy.
      Wired
      2
      Presently Reyner said, in a voice not far from hysteria: 'That prefrontal lobotomy was a good idea, John.
      The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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      At various times my predecessors tried electroconvulsive treatment, prefrontal lobotomy, neuroleptics, daytime television, LSD-noneof them work consistently or reliably.
      Down On The Farm
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      "This hellish growth has performed a prefrontal lobotomy!"
      Planet of the Damned
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      ' Prefrontal lobotomy,' muttered Williams.
      The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
      1
      He writes in this month's American Medical Association Journal: The president's prefrontal leucotomy has successfully removed all neural reflexes resistant to war-profiteering.
      The Guardian
      1
      The thought of two men kissing each other was about as appealing as a frontal lobotomy.
      Ebony
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      She narrowly escaped a frontal lobotomy after a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and years of unnecessary hospital treatment.
      Radio NZ
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      Eventually he was given a frontal lobotomy.
      The new yorker
      4
      Or, as the hard-drinking wit Dorothy Parker observed: "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy."
      Wired
      5
      Green Card with fake homosexuals, the latest frontal lobotomy from Adam Sandler should, in theory, offer even decent right-thinking liberals the odd guilty pleasure.
      The Irish Times
      Usage of leucotomy in English
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      He writes in this month's American Medical Association Journal: The president's prefrontal leucotomy has successfully removed all neural reflexes resistant to war-profiteering.
      The Guardian
      Frequent collocations
      Translations for leucotomy
      Portuguese
      lobotomia
      Leucotomy through the time