amygdalotomy

1. 1.

   psychosurgery in which amygdaloid fibers that mediate limbic system activity are severed (in cases of extreme uncontrollable violence)

   Broaderpsychosurgery

Other forms of amygdalotomy

plural

amygdalotomies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about amygdalotomy

What does amygdalotomy mean?

amygdalotomy means "psychosurgery in which amygdaloid fibers that mediate limbic system activity are severed (in cases of extreme uncontrollable violence)".

How many syllables are in amygdalotomy?

amygdalotomy has 6 syllables: a-myg-da-lo-to-my. The stress falls on "lo".

Is amygdalotomy a common word?

amygdalotomy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.