Lobotomy Health Dictionary

Lobotomy: From 2 Different Sources

Lobotomy is the cutting of a lobe of the BRAIN. (See also PSYCHOSURGERY.)

Health Source: Medical Dictionary
Author: Health Dictionary

(prefrontal leucotomy) n. see leucotomy.

Health Source: Oxford | Concise Colour Medical Dictionary
Author: Jonathan Law, Elizabeth Martin

Cutting of some of the fibres linking the frontal lobes to the rest of the brain.

This operation was formerly used to treat severe psychiatric disorders; it is very rarely performed now.... lobotomy, prefrontal