transorbital leukotomy
Look at other dictionaries:
transorbital lobotomy — prefrontal lobotomy performed by way of the orbital plate; called also transorbital leukotomy … Medical dictionary
leukotomy — Incision into the white matter of the frontal lobe of the brain. [leuko + G. tome, a cutting] prefrontal l. SYN: prefrontal lobotomy. transorbital l. SYN: transorbital lobotomy. * * * leu·kot·o·my or chiefly Brit leu·cot·o·my lü kät ə mē … Medical dictionary
leukotomy — noun surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes • Syn: ↑lobotomy, ↑leucotomy, ↑prefrontal lobotomy, ↑prefrontal leukotomy, ↑prefrontal leucotomy,… … Useful english dictionary
transorbital lobotomy — noun a method of performing prefrontal lobotomy in which the surgical knife is inserted above the eyeball and moved to cut brain fibers • Hypernyms: ↑lobotomy, ↑leukotomy, ↑leucotomy, ↑prefrontal lobotomy, ↑prefrontal leukotomy, ↑prefrontal… … Useful english dictionary
prefrontal leukotomy — noun surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes • Syn: ↑lobotomy, ↑leukotomy, ↑leucotomy, ↑prefrontal lobotomy, ↑prefrontal leucotomy, ↑frontal… … Useful english dictionary
lobotomy — 1. Incision into a lobe. 2. Division of one or more nerve tracts in a lobe of the cerebrum. [G. lobos, lobe, + tome, a cutting] prefrontal l. division of one or more nerve tracts in the prefrontal … Medical dictionary
Lobotomy — A lobotomy (Greek: lobos: Lobe of brain, tomos: cut/slice ) is a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy or leucotomy (from Greek leukos: clear or white and tomos meaning cut/slice ). It consists of cutting the connections to and from… … Wikipedia
Psychosurgery — For the Tourniquet album, refer to Psycho Surgery. Psychosurgery is a subset of neurosurgery (surgery of the brain) intended to modulate the performance of the brain, and thus effect changes in cognition, with the intent to treat or alleviate… … Wikipedia
Lobotomy — (from 1935) Also called leukotomy. Although the Swiss psychiatrist and asylum director Gottlieb Burckhardt (1836–1907) had earlier made some tentative and quite unsuccessful efforts at operating on the brain for psychiatric indications (see … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
frontal lobotomy — noun surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes • Syn: ↑lobotomy, ↑leukotomy, ↑leucotomy, ↑prefrontal lobotomy, ↑prefrontal leukotomy, ↑prefrontal… … Useful english dictionary
