prefrontal leucotomy

Noun
  1. Surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain;
    Often results in marked cognitive and personality changes (synset 100685381)
    is a type of: psychosurgery - brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems
    subtypes: transorbital lobotomy - a method of performing prefrontal lobotomy in which the surgical knife is inserted above the eyeball and moved to cut brain fibers
    same as: frontal lobotomy, leucotomy, leukotomy, lobotomy, prefrontal leukotomy, prefrontal lobotomy

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