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prefrontal lobotomy
noun
- Surgery. a psychosurgical procedure in which the frontal lobes are separated from the rest of the brain by cutting the connecting nerve fibers.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of prefrontal lobotomy1
First recorded in 1935–40
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Example Sentences
And there were still more radical procedures, prefrontal lobotomy for instance.
From Project Gutenberg
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