lobotomy

名词 n.
/ləˈbɒtəmi/    /ləˈbɑtəmi/|[-ɾə-]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically (neurosurgery), a procedure, now largely disused, involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and the thalamic region of the frontal lobe of the brain to treat certain mental illnesses. historical
    — Old psychiatric hospitals are even more frightening. They existed at a time in history when shock therapy, brain tissue manipulation, implants, drug experimentation and lobotomies were treatments de jour.
  2. A surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically (neurosurgery), a procedure, now largely disused, involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and the thalamic region of the frontal lobe of the brain to treat certain mental illnesses.; An operation involving the severing of the sympathetic nerve trunk. historical
  3. An act of removing or separating, and often disregarding or forgetting, something. figuratively
    — As [Anthony] Magistrale has noted, evil in the fiction of Stephen King "can establish dominion only at the expense of the individual's moral conscience". Yet this conscience is a deep part of the soul; to silence it, characters must perform a kind of moral lobotomy, excising the best parts of themselves, until what is left becomes less than human.

词形变化

lobotomies plural

词源

From lob(e) + -otomy (a variant of -tomy (suffix denoting a surgical incision)).
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