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TRANSORBITAL LOBOTOMY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A method of performing prefrontal lobotomy in which the surgical knife is inserted above the eyeball and moved to cut brain fibers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("transorbital lobotomy" is a kind of...):
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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