lobotomy in Portuguese
lobotomy in Portuguese is lobotomia — lobotomy means a now largely abandoned brain surgery that severs connections in the frontal lobe, once used to treat severe mental illness.
lobotomy in Portuguese
lobotomia
What does "lobotomy" mean?
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noun A now largely abandoned brain surgery that severs connections in the frontal lobe, once used to treat severe mental illness.
"The hospital performed lobotomies routinely in the 1950s before the practice fell out of favor."
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noun Figuratively, the removal or numbing of a capacity for thought or feeling.
"Watching reality TV for hours felt like a lobotomy."
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lobotomy in a sentence
- The hospital performed lobotomies routinely in the 1950s before the practice fell out of favor.
- Old psychiatric hospitals are even more frightening. They existed at a time in history when shock therapy, brain tissue manipulation, implants, drug experimentation and lobotomies were treatments de jour.
- Watching reality TV for hours felt like a lobotomy.
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What is "lobotomy" in Portuguese?
"lobotomy" in Portuguese is lobotomia. lobotomy means: A now largely abandoned brain surgery that severs connections in the frontal lobe, once used to treat severe mental illness.
How do you use "lobotomy" in a sentence?
Example: "The hospital performed lobotomies routinely in the 1950s before the practice fell out of favor." In Portuguese, "lobotomy" is lobotomia.
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