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AMYGDALOTOMY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Psychosurgery in which amygdaloid fibers that mediate limbic system activity are severed (in cases of extreme uncontrollable violence)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("amygdalotomy" is a kind of...):
psychosurgery (brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems)
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