lobotomy
pronunciation
How to pronounce lobotomy in British English:
UK [ləʊˈbɒtəmi]
How to pronounce lobotomy in American English:
US [loʊˈbɑtəmi]
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- Noun:
- surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes
Word Origin
- lobotomy (n.)
- 1936, coined from lobe (in the brain sense) + medical suffix -tomy. Figurative use is attested from 1953. Now I guess I'll have to tell 'em That I got no cerebellum [Ramones, "Teenage Lobotomy," 1977]
Example
- 1. Of course , the lobotomy always had its critics .
- 2. You ever heard of a transorbital lobotomy ?
- 3. In a 1942 presentation at the new york academy of medicine , the scientists reported that after lobotomy , patients did sometimes become " indolent " or " outspoken . "
- 4. Though many of moniz and freeman 's patients became essentially catatonic , while others were unaffected , enough seemed " cured " that the lobotomy became standard practice in mental institutions in the 1940s and early 50s .
- 5. He 's not gonna perform shock therapy or a lobotomy , is he ?