frontal lobotomy
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1. surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes (noun.act)
| hypernym | : | psychosurgery, |
| definition | : | brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | transorbital lobotomy, |
| definition | : | a method of performing prefrontal lobotomy in which the surgical knife is inserted above the eyeball and moved to cut brain fibers (noun.act) |
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