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lobotómia — meaning in English

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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

lobotómia 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.