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