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

1 sense of transorbital lobotomy

Sense 1
transorbital lobotomy -- (a method of performing prefrontal lobotomy in which the surgical knife is inserted above the eyeball and moved to cut brain fibers)
       => 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)