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leukotomy

American

[loo-kot-uh-mee] / luˈkɒt ə mi /

noun

Chiefly British Surgery.

prefrontal lobotomy.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

leukotomies

plural

Etymology

Origin of leukotomy

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

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