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Definition of lobotomy in English: lobotomynounPlural lobotomies ləˈbɒtəmiləˈbɑdəmi A surgical operation involving incision into the prefrontal lobe of the brain, formerly used to treat mental illness. 脑白质切断术。比较LEUCOTOMY 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.
Rhymesdichotomy, tracheotomy, trichotomy Definition of lobotomy in US English: lobotomynounləˈbädəmēləˈbɑdəmi A surgical operation involving incision into the prefrontal lobe of the brain, formerly used to treat mental illness. 脑白质切断术。比较LEUCOTOMY 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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