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lobotomia Catalan
leucotomia 
Surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes.
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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.
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Everyone agrees that President George Bush's lobotomy has been a tremendous success.
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Dad was probably going to think I'd had a lobotomy or something.
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He prepares to undergo a cingulotomy, an operation similar to a lobotomy.
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HAL's lobotomy monologue in the book mentions his first instructor, Dr. Chandra.
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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.
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With various refinements, this became standard operating procedure for the prefrontal lobotomy.
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Presently Reyner said, in a voice not far from hysteria: 'That prefrontal lobotomy was a good idea, John.
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At various times my predecessors tried electroconvulsive treatment, prefrontal lobotomy, neuroleptics, daytime television, LSD-noneof them work consistently or reliably.
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"This hellish growth has performed a prefrontal lobotomy!"
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' Prefrontal lobotomy,' muttered Williams.
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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.
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The thought of two men kissing each other was about as appealing as a frontal lobotomy.
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She narrowly escaped a frontal lobotomy after a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and years of unnecessary hospital treatment.
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Eventually he was given a frontal lobotomy.
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Or, as the hard-drinking wit Dorothy Parker observed: "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy."
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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.
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Firstly, to explore the past media coverage of leukotomy, and to examine its widespread acceptance and the neglect of ethical issues in its depiction.