Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun frontal_lobotomy

1 sense of frontal lobotomy

Sense 1
lobotomy, leukotomy, leucotomy, prefrontal lobotomy, prefrontal leukotomy, prefrontal leucotomy, frontal lobotomy -- (surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes)
       => psychosurgery -- (brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems)