Meaning & use
lobotomy
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A surgical operation that severs connections in the brain's prefrontal cortex, once used, and now discredited, to treat severe mental illness.
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The history of the lobotomy is now viewed as one of medicine's darkest chapters.
He joked that sitting through the tedious meeting felt like it required a lobotomy.
A note on using this word
Widely performed in the mid-20th century, the procedure fell out of practice once its severe, often devastating side effects became clear; "lobotomize" is the related verb.
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