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lobotomy

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8 lettersPronunciation /ləˈbɒtəmi/Part of speech nounSorted blmoootyStarts with LEnds with Y0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A brain surgery once used to treat mental illness by cutting frontal lobe connections.

Word origin

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

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  • 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.
  • Put another way, how can we avoid an ethical lobotomy in establishing an organizational perspective?
  • In the end, as Levinson feared, the price of Charlie being accepted into normative school society is a kind of social lobotomy: he is tamed, so he is not really Charlie anymore.

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