lobotomy in English

noun
1
a surgical operation involving incision into the prefrontal lobe of the brain, formerly used to treat mental illness.
This operation, also called prefrontal leucotomy or standard lobotomy , was performed widely, and soon its beneficial as well as its detrimental effects became apparent.

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1. She had a lobotomy in 19

2. Of course, the lobotomy always had its critics.

3. That unintentional lobotomy would be hard to explain.

4. Oh please , kia what you need is lobotomy.

5. 12 That unintentional lobotomy would be hard to explain.

6. Oh , please , kia , what you need is a lobotomy.

7. Wedge resections were performed in 16 patients and left lobotomy in 2 patients.

8. Objective: To provide the anatomic data for liver transplantation and the left hepatic lobotomy.

9. All we know is that there were success stories, including at least one lobotomy.

10. "My idea was to avoid lobotomy, " Delgado says, "with the help of electrodes implanted in the brain.

11. " His name is a corruption of "lobotomy, " a nod to a last minute change to the character.

12. It is often said that when an iron rod was accidentally driven through the head of Phineas Gage in 1848, this constituted an "accidental lobotomy", or that this event somehow inspired the development of surgical lobotomy a century later.

13. On at least two occasions a lobotomy was considered and rejected for Alfred, who became ill in late 19

14. The whole stage resembles the Abnormality appearing in the cards, being the Abnormality 'Bloodbath' from the prequel game, Lobotomy Corporation.

15. In a 1942 presentation at the New York Academy of Medicine, the scientists reported that after lobotomy, patients did sometimes become "indolent" or "outspoken.

16. Acutes are considered functioning and curable, while the Chronics are those who have been permanently damaged by the staff’s treatments, which include lobotomy and shock therapy

17. "Some were shaking so violently when they approached me with their otoscopes—the pointed device for looking in the ear—that I feared an imminent lobotomy, " she writes.

18. In retrospect, it seems clear why she might have felt that way, but Moniz reports that after a frontal lobotomy she was cured, "though possibly a little reticent."

19. That's the thinking behind 'Session ' a horror film that was shot at the abandoned Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts (rumored to be the location of the first-ever lobotomy).

20. Blurry Lyrics: Like a botched lobotomy / Losing little parts of me / Because you're a fever / And I keep losing limbs / You're out of reach / And it's just so unappealing / When you're clinging

21. Freeman's crazy antics didn't scare off potential patients, though: John F. Kennedy's sister Rosemary got a lobotomy from Freeman, which left her a vegetable for the rest of her life.

22. Moniz and Freemen are usually credited with inventing the lobotomy in the 1930s, though in truth their work was based on many other people's research going back to the mid-19th century.

23. Abnormalities are entities that manifested from the mind of humans, and as such reflect an aspect of desires or fears of people, and they featured predominantly in the prequel game Lobotomy Corporation.

24. The possibility of differentiation between algesia and algonosia fits in both with experiences with prefrontal lobotomy and with the clinical effects of the usual doses of morphine-like substances: in both cases whilst algesia remains unaltered algonosia is extinguished.