leucotomy

Other forms of leucotomy

plural

leucotomies·

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 leucotomy

What does leucotomy mean?

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

How many syllables are in leucotomy?

leucotomy has 5 syllables and divides as le-u-co-to-my under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for leucotomy?

Close synonyms include lobotomy, leukotomy, prefrontal lobotomy, prefrontal leukotomy, prefrontal leucotomy. 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 leucotomy a common word?

leucotomy 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.