lobotomy

Definition

A surgical operation on the frontal lobe of the brain intent on treating certain mental illnesses.

Etymology

From lobe + -otomy.

Example Sentences

• "They existed at a time in history when shock therapy, brain tissue manipulation, implants, drug experimentation and lobotomies were treatments de jour."
• "Yet this conscience is a deep part of the soul; to silence it, characters must perform a kind of moral lobotomy, excising the best parts of themselves, until what is left becomes less than human."
• "Organisations which set out to treat all individuals as the same, or are ‘colour-blind’ in their philosophy, could be said to impose a form of cultural lobotomy on their clients, in denying the additional skills, knowledge and experience that they have as members of a minority culture."