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leucotomy Surg.|l(j)uːˈkɒtəmɪ|
[ad. F. leucotomie (E. Moniz Tentatives Opératoires dans le Traitement de certaines Psychoses (1936) viii. 195): see leuco- (here signifying the white matter of the brain) and -tomy.]
= lobotomy (in spec. sense).
1937E. Moniz in Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry XCIII. 1379 (heading) Prefrontal leucotomy in the treatment of mental disorders. 1947Times 13 Feb. 6/4 At intervals in the past 10 years details of the brain operation of leucotomy performed on patients with certain types of mental illness have appeared in the Press. 1950M. Greenblatt et al. Stud. in Lobotomy ii. 10 The English, however, use rather uniformly the more correct term ‘leucotomy’, in their description of the psychosurgical technic, whereas, in this country [sc. the U.S.A.], many still prefer the term ‘lobotomy’. 1951Lancet 21 July 91/2 (heading) Rostral leucotomy. 1958Listener 5 June 931/2 People make moral objections to pre-frontal leucotomy even as a remedial measure. 1964M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. vi. 87 Other kinds of physical treatment, like insulin treatment and leucotomy, have declined in importance since the new methods have been discovered. 1967[see gyrectomy]. 1969Times 22 Mar. 3/2 The symptoms of pre⁓frontal leucotomy..include lack of inhibitions and inability to concentrate.
So ˈleucotome [a. F. leucotome (E. Moniz 1936, in Bull. de l'Acad. de Méd. CXV. 390): see -tome1], an instrument used to perform leucotomy; leuˈcotomize v. trans., to perform leucotomy on; leuˈcotomized ppl. a.
1937E. Moniz in Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry XCIII. 1380 Sections were made in the subcortical white matter by a leucotome with a steel loop, tending to crush the white matter... At the present time we are using a leucotome with a steel band that cuts rather than compresses. 1951Lancet 21 July 92/1 From the number of patients so leucotomised who have come to me for more extensive operations, the results do not appear very satisfactory. 1959Times 24 July 4/4 Where not so long ago some of these patients might have been leucotomized we now no longer do so. 1964M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. xii. 149 Authoritarians, psychotics and leucotomized patients are all poor at person perception. 1969New Scientist 30 Jan. 229/2 The destruction of localized areas in the brain has also been achieved by..the excision of a segment of tissue with an instrument (a leucotome). |