lobotomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From lob(e) + -otomy (a variant of -tomy (suffix denoting a surgical incision)).
Base: lobe
Affixes: -otomy
Inflected forms:
form: lobotomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: An act of removing or separating, and often disregarding or forgetting, something.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: As [Anthony] Magistrale has noted, evil in the fiction of Stephen King "can establish dominion only at the expense of the individual's moral conscience". 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.
We hear a great deal about the need to cultivate civic virtue and a heightened sense of obligation, but rarely—if ever—are skepticism, conscientiousness, and intellectual honesty included among the list of virtues presented by those who would renew public life. It is as if civic engagement required a moral-intellectual lobotomy, the better to overcome doubts about the inherent goodness of the community, the moral worth of a given group identity, or the value of specific ideological commitment.
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.
Derived words: ice-pick lobotomy
lobotomisation
lobotomization
lobotomised
lobotomized
lobotomise
lobotomize
lobotomiser
lobotomizer
lobotomist
lobotomite
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: lobotomia
lang: Arabic
word: جراحة فصية
lang: Azerbaijani
word: lobotomiya
lang: Bashkir
word: лоботоми́я
roman: lobotomíya
lang: Basque
word: lobotomia
lang: Belarusian
word: лабатамія
roman: labatamija
lang: Bulgarian
word: лоботоми́я
roman: lobotomíja
lang: Catalan
word: lobotomia
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 腦葉切除術 /脑叶切除术
roman: nǎoyèqiēchúshù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 前腦葉白質切除術 /前脑叶白质切除术
roman: qiánnǎoyèbáizhíqiēchúshù
lang: Czech
word: lobotomie
lang: Danish
word: lobotomi
lang: Danish
word: det hvide snit
lang: Dutch
word: lobotomie
lang: Esperanto
word: lobotomio
lang: Estonian
word: lobotoomia
lang: Finnish
word: lobotomia
lang: French
word: lobotomie
lang: West-Frisian
word: lobotomy
lang: Galician
word: lobotomía
lang: Georgian
word: ლობოტომია
roman: loboṭomia
lang: German
word: Lobotomie
lang: Greek
word: λοβοτομή
roman: lovotomí
lang: Hebrew
word: לובוטומיה
lang: Hindi
word: मस्तिष्कखंडछेदन
roman: mastiṣkakhaṇḍchedan
lang: Hungarian
word: lobotómia
lang: Icelandic
word: hvítuskurður
lang: Indonesian
word: lobotomi
lang: Italian
word: lobotomia
lang: Japanese
word: ロボトミー
roman: robotomī
lang: Korean
word: 뇌엽 절제술
roman: noeyeop jeoljesul
lang: Latvian
word: lobotomija
lang: Lithuanian
word: lobotomija
lang: Macedonian
word: лобото́мија
roman: lobotómija
lang: Malay
word: lobotomi
lang: Maltese
word: lobotomija
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: lobotomi
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: lobotomi
lang: Persian
word: لوبوتومی
lang: Polish
word: lobotomia
lang: Portuguese
word: lobotomia
lang: Romanian
word: lobotomie
lang: Russian
word: лоботоми́я
roman: lobotomíja
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: лобото̀мија
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: lobotòmija
lang: Slovak
word: lobotómia
lang: Spanish
word: lobotomía
lang: Swedish
word: lobotomi
lang: Turkish
word: lobotomi
lang: Ukrainian
word: лоботомі́я
roman: lobotomíja
lang: Veps
word: lobotomii
lang: Vietnamese
word: phẫu thuật thuỳ não