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leukotomy

American  
[loo-kot-uh-mee] / luˈkɒt ə mi /

noun

Chiefly British Surgery.

PLURAL

leukotomies

  1. prefrontal lobotomy.

Etymology

Origin of leukotomy

First recorded in 1935–40; leuko- + -tomy

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Hypnoconditioning, the Quiet Treatment, brainburning, transorbital leukotomy, lobectomy—all of the products of that diseased period of humanity's thinking when men tampered with the brains of other men in an effort to cure psychic states.

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