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- Dictionarylobotomy/ləˈbɒtəmi/
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- 1. a surgical operation involving incision into the prefrontal lobe of the brain, formerly used to treat mental illness: "there was talk of performing a lobotomy"
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A lobotomy or leucotomy is a discredited form of neurosurgical treatment for psychiatric disorder or neurological disorder that involves severing connections in the brain's prefrontal cortex. The surgery causes most of the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain, to be severed. Wikipedia