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Meanings of lobotomy in English

Russian
трансорбитальная лоботомия
Portuguese
leucotomia
Catalan
leucotomia
Spanish
lobotomizacion
Wikidata

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

      трансорбитальная лоботомия
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      Examples for "leukotomy"
      Examples for "leukotomy"
      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
      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
      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
      3
      At various times my predecessors tried electroconvulsive treatment, prefrontal lobotomy, neuroleptics, daytime television, LSD-noneof them work consistently or reliably.
      Down On The Farm
      4
      "This hellish growth has performed a prefrontal lobotomy!"
      Planet of the Damned
      5
      ' 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
      2
      She narrowly escaped a frontal lobotomy after a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and years of unnecessary hospital treatment.
      Radio NZ
      3
      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 lobotomy in English
      1
      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
      6
      She turned to me, the lobotomy eyes burning with rage and guilt.
      Deadly Décisions
      7
      Or maybe that's the merciful lobotomy of years of drug use.
      High on arrival
      8
      Without it, I'm just a Stepford wife with a chemical lobotomy.
      Wired
      9
      Institutionalised since 1941 because of an intellectual disability and failed lobotomy.
      The Irish Times
      10
      Taking the M6 Dublin Galway motorway is like having a lobotomy.
      The Irish Times
      11
      A really careful lobotomy, to switch off bits of my brain.
      The Guardian
      12
      Lobot's a guy with a computer implanted in his brain, like a lobotomy.
      Wired
      13
      A devil-horned being who imposes order through discipline and uses lobotomy as a weapon?
      News.com.au
      14
      Force her into hot baths -followed, perhaps, by shock treatment and a tidy lobotomy.
      Breeder
      15
      Maybe the world is crying out for another cinematic lobotomy.
      The Irish Times
      16
      Still waiting on DNA from the bones, trace from the concrete. A lobotomy on Slidell.
      Speaking in Bones