Definition of lobotomy in English:

lobotomy

nounPlural lobotomies ləˈbɒtəmiləˈbɑdəmi

A surgical operation involving incision into the prefrontal lobe of the brain, formerly used to treat mental illness.
there was talk of performing a lobotomy
Compare with leucotomy
mass noun the revolt against the resurgence of lobotomy
Example sentencesExamples
- In 1967, Freeman performed a lobotomy on one of his original patients in Berkeley, California.
- These were the days when doubts were being voiced about lobotomies and leucotomies and other simple little strokes of the specialist's knife.
- A cingulutomy is a prefrontal lobotomy that severs certain functions between the two frontal hemispheres.
- The number of lobotomies, or leucotomies, fell dramatically after the 1950s, as drugs became available, especially for schizophrenia.
- Several were of a gruesome medical procedure, a prefrontal lobotomy.
- His lifelong guilt came from allowing his mother to authorize a lobotomy on his sister; twenty years later, he still regarded his mother with both reverence and resentment.
- A few months after performing his first lobotomy in 1936, Freeman presented the case to the annual meeting of the Southern Medical Association.
- It compares with a surgeon going into an operating theatre without knowing whether he is going to remove an appendix or perform a lobotomy; and who knows, if he gets really inspired, he may amputate the patient's left leg.
- Upon receipt of the promised champagne and chocolates I can recommend a friendly brain surgeon, skilled in pre-frontal lobotomies.
- There were other types of lobotomy as well… as many varieties as there were imaginative neurosurgeons.
- This operation, also called prefrontal leucotomy or standard lobotomy, was performed widely, and soon its beneficial as well as its detrimental effects became apparent.
- We have all soaked up enough of music's answer to general anaesthetic to have lobotomies performed quite painlessly.
- The painter's younger sister, Jacqueline, who was physically and mentally handicapped had a lobotomy when she was a child and spent her life in a mental institution.
- Later, a visiting neurosurgeon used the theater to perform lobotomies on patients who were scarcely aware of what was being done to them.
- By the late 1950s, more than 30,000 patients had had lobotomies and the surgery was being used to ‘cure’ everything from mental retardation to homosexuality to criminal insanity.
- Neurosurgeons everywhere started to abandon lobotomy in favour of more humane methods of treatment.
- It seems that in the 1930s, when Egas Moniz was doing the first lobotomies on humans, treating mental illness was urgent for some reason.
- Although we no longer burn mental patients at the stake or perform lobotomies, this new research demonstrates that our treatments for schizophrenia are still far from ideal.
- There was, however, the far more brutal chance that he would be donated to the Experimental Surgery wing for a lobotomy.
- Little attention was paid to what happened to those subjected to lobotomies after surgery.

Rhymes

dichotomy, tracheotomy, trichotomy

Definition of lobotomy in US English:

lobotomy

nounləˈbädəmēləˈbɑdəmi

A surgical operation involving incision into the prefrontal lobe of the brain, formerly used to treat mental illness.
there was talk of performing a lobotomy
mass noun the revolt against the resurgence of lobotomy
Example sentencesExamples
- It compares with a surgeon going into an operating theatre without knowing whether he is going to remove an appendix or perform a lobotomy; and who knows, if he gets really inspired, he may amputate the patient's left leg.
- We have all soaked up enough of music's answer to general anaesthetic to have lobotomies performed quite painlessly.
- Although we no longer burn mental patients at the stake or perform lobotomies, this new research demonstrates that our treatments for schizophrenia are still far from ideal.
- It seems that in the 1930s, when Egas Moniz was doing the first lobotomies on humans, treating mental illness was urgent for some reason.
- These were the days when doubts were being voiced about lobotomies and leucotomies and other simple little strokes of the specialist's knife.
- In 1967, Freeman performed a lobotomy on one of his original patients in Berkeley, California.
- Later, a visiting neurosurgeon used the theater to perform lobotomies on patients who were scarcely aware of what was being done to them.
- A cingulutomy is a prefrontal lobotomy that severs certain functions between the two frontal hemispheres.
- This operation, also called prefrontal leucotomy or standard lobotomy, was performed widely, and soon its beneficial as well as its detrimental effects became apparent.
- Several were of a gruesome medical procedure, a prefrontal lobotomy.
- There was, however, the far more brutal chance that he would be donated to the Experimental Surgery wing for a lobotomy.
- By the late 1950s, more than 30,000 patients had had lobotomies and the surgery was being used to ‘cure’ everything from mental retardation to homosexuality to criminal insanity.
- Upon receipt of the promised champagne and chocolates I can recommend a friendly brain surgeon, skilled in pre-frontal lobotomies.
- The painter's younger sister, Jacqueline, who was physically and mentally handicapped had a lobotomy when she was a child and spent her life in a mental institution.
- Little attention was paid to what happened to those subjected to lobotomies after surgery.
- A few months after performing his first lobotomy in 1936, Freeman presented the case to the annual meeting of the Southern Medical Association.
- His lifelong guilt came from allowing his mother to authorize a lobotomy on his sister; twenty years later, he still regarded his mother with both reverence and resentment.
- The number of lobotomies, or leucotomies, fell dramatically after the 1950s, as drugs became available, especially for schizophrenia.
- Neurosurgeons everywhere started to abandon lobotomy in favour of more humane methods of treatment.
- There were other types of lobotomy as well… as many varieties as there were imaginative neurosurgeons.

单词	lobotomy
释义	Definition of lobotomy in English: lobotomy nounPlural lobotomies ləˈbɒtəmiləˈbɑdəmi A surgical operation involving incision into the prefrontal lobe of the brain, formerly used to treat mental illness. there was talk of performing a lobotomy Compare with leucotomy mass noun the revolt against the resurgence of lobotomy Example sentencesExamples In 1967, Freeman performed a lobotomy on one of his original patients in Berkeley, California. These were the days when doubts were being voiced about lobotomies and leucotomies and other simple little strokes of the specialist's knife. A cingulutomy is a prefrontal lobotomy that severs certain functions between the two frontal hemispheres. The number of lobotomies, or leucotomies, fell dramatically after the 1950s, as drugs became available, especially for schizophrenia. Several were of a gruesome medical procedure, a prefrontal lobotomy. His lifelong guilt came from allowing his mother to authorize a lobotomy on his sister; twenty years later, he still regarded his mother with both reverence and resentment. A few months after performing his first lobotomy in 1936, Freeman presented the case to the annual meeting of the Southern Medical Association. It compares with a surgeon going into an operating theatre without knowing whether he is going to remove an appendix or perform a lobotomy; and who knows, if he gets really inspired, he may amputate the patient's left leg. Upon receipt of the promised champagne and chocolates I can recommend a friendly brain surgeon, skilled in pre-frontal lobotomies. There were other types of lobotomy as well… as many varieties as there were imaginative neurosurgeons. This operation, also called prefrontal leucotomy or standard lobotomy, was performed widely, and soon its beneficial as well as its detrimental effects became apparent. We have all soaked up enough of music's answer to general anaesthetic to have lobotomies performed quite painlessly. The painter's younger sister, Jacqueline, who was physically and mentally handicapped had a lobotomy when she was a child and spent her life in a mental institution. Later, a visiting neurosurgeon used the theater to perform lobotomies on patients who were scarcely aware of what was being done to them. By the late 1950s, more than 30,000 patients had had lobotomies and the surgery was being used to ‘cure’ everything from mental retardation to homosexuality to criminal insanity. Neurosurgeons everywhere started to abandon lobotomy in favour of more humane methods of treatment. It seems that in the 1930s, when Egas Moniz was doing the first lobotomies on humans, treating mental illness was urgent for some reason. Although we no longer burn mental patients at the stake or perform lobotomies, this new research demonstrates that our treatments for schizophrenia are still far from ideal. There was, however, the far more brutal chance that he would be donated to the Experimental Surgery wing for a lobotomy. Little attention was paid to what happened to those subjected to lobotomies after surgery. Rhymes dichotomy, tracheotomy, trichotomy Definition of lobotomy in US English: lobotomy nounləˈbädəmēləˈbɑdəmi A surgical operation involving incision into the prefrontal lobe of the brain, formerly used to treat mental illness. there was talk of performing a lobotomy mass noun the revolt against the resurgence of lobotomy Example sentencesExamples It compares with a surgeon going into an operating theatre without knowing whether he is going to remove an appendix or perform a lobotomy; and who knows, if he gets really inspired, he may amputate the patient's left leg. We have all soaked up enough of music's answer to general anaesthetic to have lobotomies performed quite painlessly. Although we no longer burn mental patients at the stake or perform lobotomies, this new research demonstrates that our treatments for schizophrenia are still far from ideal. It seems that in the 1930s, when Egas Moniz was doing the first lobotomies on humans, treating mental illness was urgent for some reason. These were the days when doubts were being voiced about lobotomies and leucotomies and other simple little strokes of the specialist's knife. In 1967, Freeman performed a lobotomy on one of his original patients in Berkeley, California. Later, a visiting neurosurgeon used the theater to perform lobotomies on patients who were scarcely aware of what was being done to them. A cingulutomy is a prefrontal lobotomy that severs certain functions between the two frontal hemispheres. This operation, also called prefrontal leucotomy or standard lobotomy, was performed widely, and soon its beneficial as well as its detrimental effects became apparent. Several were of a gruesome medical procedure, a prefrontal lobotomy. There was, however, the far more brutal chance that he would be donated to the Experimental Surgery wing for a lobotomy. By the late 1950s, more than 30,000 patients had had lobotomies and the surgery was being used to ‘cure’ everything from mental retardation to homosexuality to criminal insanity. Upon receipt of the promised champagne and chocolates I can recommend a friendly brain surgeon, skilled in pre-frontal lobotomies. The painter's younger sister, Jacqueline, who was physically and mentally handicapped had a lobotomy when she was a child and spent her life in a mental institution. Little attention was paid to what happened to those subjected to lobotomies after surgery. A few months after performing his first lobotomy in 1936, Freeman presented the case to the annual meeting of the Southern Medical Association. His lifelong guilt came from allowing his mother to authorize a lobotomy on his sister; twenty years later, he still regarded his mother with both reverence and resentment. The number of lobotomies, or leucotomies, fell dramatically after the 1950s, as drugs became available, especially for schizophrenia. Neurosurgeons everywhere started to abandon lobotomy in favour of more humane methods of treatment. There were other types of lobotomy as well… as many varieties as there were imaginative neurosurgeons.
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