transorbital lobotomy

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   a method of performing prefrontal lobotomy in which the surgical knife is inserted above the eyeball and moved to cut brain fibers

   Broaderlobotomy

Questions about transorbital lobotomy

What does transorbital lobotomy mean?

transorbital lobotomy means "a method of performing prefrontal lobotomy in which the surgical knife is inserted above the eyeball and moved to cut brain fibers".

Is transorbital lobotomy a common word?

transorbital 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.