prefrontal lobotomy
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of prefrontal lobotomy
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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In 1941, her father dispatched Rosemary to have a prefrontal lobotomy, which was botched, leaving her brain-damaged.
From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2018
Related: The forgotten Kennedy Rosemary Kennedy, the firstborn daughter to Joseph Kennedy, Sr and Rose Fitzgerald, was one of the first mental health patients to undergo the controversial prefrontal lobotomy procedure in the US.
From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2016
Deciding that something drastic needed to be done, Joseph Kennedy chose a surgical solution that the American Medical Association had already warned was risky: a prefrontal lobotomy.
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2015
The prefrontal lobotomy is a drastic—and largely out- of-practice—procedure used to disconnect that portion of the cerebral cortex from the rest of the frontal lobe and the diencephalon as a psychiatric therapy.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
And there were still more radical procedures, prefrontal lobotomy for instance.
From The Sensitive Man by Anderson, Poul William
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