prefrontal lobotomy

1. 1.

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

   Synonymslobotomyleukotomyleucotomyprefrontal leukotomyprefrontal leucotomyfrontal lobotomy

   Broaderpsychosurgery

   Narrowertransorbital lobotomy

Questions about prefrontal lobotomy

What does prefrontal lobotomy mean?

prefrontal 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 prefrontal lobotomy?

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

prefrontal 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.