मस्तिष्कखंडछेदन — meaning in English

English meaning

• lobotomy noun A now largely abandoned brain surgery that severs connections in the frontal lobe, once used to treat severe mental illness.

Senses

मस्तिष्कखंडछेदन is used for these senses in English:

• lobotomy surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain

lobotomy — full definition

1. noun A now largely abandoned brain surgery that severs connections in the frontal lobe, once used to treat severe mental illness.
2. noun Figuratively, the removal or numbing of a capacity for thought or feeling.