Crossword clues for lobotomy
lobotomy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
lobotomy \lobotomy\ n. (Med., Surgery) The surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain, by cutting into the brain.
Syn: prefrontal lobotomy, prefrontal leucotomy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1936, coined from lobe (in the brain sense) + medical suffix -tomy. Figurative use is attested from 1953.\n\nNow I guess I'll have to tell 'em\n
That I got no cerebellum\n
[Ramones, "Teenage Lobotomy," 1977]
Wiktionary
n. 1 A surgical operation on the frontal lobe of the brain intent on treating certain mental illnesses. 2 The severing of the prefrontal cortex from the thalamic region of the brain. 3 The severing of the sympathetic nerve trunk.
WordNet
n. surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes [syn: leukotomy, leucotomy, prefrontal lobotomy, prefrontal leukotomy, prefrontal leucotomy, frontal lobotomy]
Wikipedia
Lobotomy ( " lobe (of brain)"; τομή tomē "cut, slice") is a neurosurgical procedure, a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy or leucotomy (from the Greek λευκός leukos "clear, white" and tomē). It consists of cutting or scraping away most of the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain.
The procedure, controversial from its inception, was a mainstream procedure in some Western countries for more than two decades (prescribed for psychiatric and occasionally other conditions) despite general recognition of frequent and serious side effects. While some patients experienced symptomatic improvement with the operation, this was achieved at the cost of creating other impairments, and this balance between benefits and risks contributed to the controversial nature of the procedure. The originator of the procedure, Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 for the "discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses", although the awarding of the prize has been subject to controversy.
The use of the procedure increased dramatically from the early 1940s and into the 1950s; by 1951, almost 20,000 lobotomies had been performed in the United States alone. Following the introduction of antipsychotic medications in the mid-1950s and under the influence of the anti-psychiatry movement, lobotomies were quickly and almost completely abandoned.
Usage examples of "lobotomy".
It is sometimes argued that cuts or lesions in significant parts of the cerebral cortex in humans-as by bilateral prefrontal lobotomy or by an accident-have little effect on behavior.
With one sweep he eliminated the centuries-old butchery of lobotomy and topectomy which had maimed hundreds of thousands in its long fad.
We would all be subject to the penalty of lobotomy, as nonsocial psi-mutants, unless we took it farther and took over CC ourselves and established a new order.
They went inside the Operations Room where Toolroom had laid up valiantly, a large lanky six-foot bunny rabbit who looked like Abe Lincoln with a lobotomy.
Like all great sportswriters, Rice understood that his world might go all to pieces if he ever dared to doubt that his eyes were wired straight to his lower brain -- a sort of de facto lobotomy, which enables the grinning victim to operate entirely on the level of Sensory Perception.
Thinth when doth a pre-frontal lobotomy cathe belong in a plathe like thith?
No matter what was to happen to her, be it premature senility, severe blows to the head, a full frontal lobotomy, she would still be able to bring that voice instantly to mind.
On the other hand, they're very keen to get him under their control and brainwash him and push him in front of the television cameras to confess his sins and declare himself reformed, putting him through, politically speaking, a frontal lobotomy and rendering him harmless to the regime.
Talk about your lobotomies, when you used to say I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy where'd you get that, that's somebody else too isn't it because you've got one, the figures on lung cancer right in front of you like the facts staring those primates square in the face out there choking on Genesis and you say it's just a statistical parallel and light another.
Because most of our expeditions are funded by my book royalties without any type of donations or grants, my wife and accountant, and yes, the IRS, all think I require a frontal lobotomy because I indulge in all this madness for no profit or gain.
Two weeks later rumour got around that two artists working in the building had undergone pre-frontal lobotomy at the insistence of the government psychiatrists.
Their emotions were so close to the surface that she could have had a frontal lobotomy and still been able to read the average Klingon from half a mile away.
Cameron's, employed at the time in Nazi-run detention centers in South America, would be called on to perform lobotomies on unsuspecting patients, with the full approval of Governor Reagan.
Cameron performed hundreds of lobotomies and electroshock treatments at the behest of the CIA on unwitting patients in prisons and mental hospitals, and at his beloved Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal.
I am a CC telepath sent here in the company of a normal to investigate certain illicit lobotomies on psi-persons.