leucotome

[ loo-kuh-tohm ]

nounSurgery.
  1. an instrument for dissecting the white matter of the brain, consisting of a cannula containing a slender rotating blade.

Origin of leucotome

1
First recorded in 1935–40; leuco- + -tome

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