Meaning & use
lobotomized
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Having undergone a lobotomy, a surgical procedure that severs connections in the brain's frontal lobe, once used to treat severe mental illness.
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The historical documentary described patients who were lobotomized in the mid-20th century.
Critics argue the procedure often left lobotomized patients with permanent personality changes.
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Lobotomies were widely performed from the 1930s to 1950s but are now considered a discredited and largely abandoned practice; the word is standard in medical and historical writing.
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