| 单词 | lobotomy |
| 释义 | lobotomy (once / 78796 pages) n A lobotomy is a surgical procedure that interrupts the nerves in the brain. Before the use of prescription drugs became wide-spread, a common treatment for severe mental illness was lobotomy. The lobotomy was invented in 1935 and used fairly regularly for about twenty years to treat psychosis and other mental illnesses. It was always controversial, and once effective anti-psychosis medications were developed, it fell out of use. Lobotomy results in a calmed, but also often mentally dull patient. The word itself comes from the word lobe, as in a part of brain, combined with tomy, a medical suffix that means "a cutting." WORD FAMILYlobotomy: lobotomies USAGE EXAMPLESYet two years later, Papa Kennedy decided that Rosemary should have a new and promising but radical treatment: a frontal lobotomy. New York Times(Nov 15, 2016) Doctors at the facility also performed regular lobotomies and shock therapy. Washington Times(Nov 14, 2016) A recently invented procedure, the prefrontal lobotomy, seemed like just the thing to thin out their populations. New York Times(Aug 24, 2016) n surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes Syn|Hypo|Hyper frontal lobotomy, leucotomy, leukotomy, prefrontal leucotomy, prefrontal leukotomy, prefrontal lobotomy transorbital lobotomy a method of performing prefrontal lobotomy in which the surgical knife is inserted above the eyeball and moved to cut brain fibers psychosurgery brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems |
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