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PSYCHOSURGERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("psychosurgery" is a kind of...):
brain surgery (any surgical procedure involving the brain)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "psychosurgery"):
amygdalotomy (psychosurgery in which amygdaloid fibers that mediate limbic system activity are severed (in cases of extreme uncontrollable violence))
callosectomy; callosotomy (severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy))
frontal lobotomy; leucotomy; leukotomy; lobotomy; prefrontal leucotomy; prefrontal leukotomy; prefrontal lobotomy (surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes)
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