Lobotomy

Quick meaning: Lobotomy is a noun meaning (figurative) An act of removing or separating, and often disregarding or forgetting, something.

Meaning

(figurative) An act of removing or separating, and often disregarding or forgetting, something.

More Meanings

1. (surgery, chiefly historical) A surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically (neurosurgery), a procedure, now largely disused, involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and the thalamic region of the frontal lobe of the brain to treat certain mental illnesses.

Example Sentences

Put another way, how can we avoid an ethical lobotomy in establishing an organizational perspective?

In the end, as Levinson feared, the price of Charlie being accepted into normative school society is a kind of social lobotomy: he is tamed, so he is not really Charlie anymore.

Old psychiatric hospitals are even more frightening. They existed at a time in history when shock therapy, brain tissue manipulation, implants, drug experimentation and lobotomies were treatments de jour.

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.

Word Forms

• lobotomies

Synonyms for lobotomy

Depending on context, synonyms include leucotomy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transorbital, prefrontal, lobotomization, lobectomy, leucotomy, leukotomy.

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