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prefron′tal lobot′omy, 
  1. Surgerya psychosurgical procedure in which the frontal lobes are separated from the rest of the brain by cutting the connecting nerve fibers. Also called frontal lobotomy, lobotomy. 
  • 1935–40

'prefrontal lobotomy' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
frontal lobotomy - leucotomy - leukotomy - lobotomy

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