prefrontal leukotomy
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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
prefrontal lobotomy — n lobotomy of the white matter in the frontal lobe of the brain called also frontal leukotomy, frontal lobotomy, prefrontal leukotomy * * * an operation in which, through holes drilled in the skull, the white matter of the frontal lobe is incised … Medical dictionary
prefrontal leucotomy — 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, ↑frontal… … Useful english dictionary
prefrontal 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 leukotomy, ↑prefrontal leucotomy, ↑frontal… … Useful english 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
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 — /looh kot euh mee/, n., pl. leukotomies. Chiefly Brit. Surg. See prefrontal lobotomy. [1935 40; LEUKO + TOMY] * * * … Universalium
leukotomy — n. prefrontal lobotomy, surgical procedure in which the nerve fibers between the frontal lobes and the rest of the brain are severed (Medicine) … English contemporary dictionary
frontal leukotomy — n PREFRONTAL LOBOTOMY … Medical 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
