frontal lobotomy

Questions about frontal lobotomy

What does frontal lobotomy mean?

frontal lobotomy means "surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes".

What is another word for frontal lobotomy?

Close synonyms include lobotomy, leukotomy, leucotomy, prefrontal lobotomy, prefrontal leukotomy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is frontal lobotomy a common word?

frontal lobotomy 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.