gyrectomyn.
/dʒʌɪəˈrɛktəmi/ Surgery.
Surgical excision or resection of a gyrus of the brain.
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decerebration1900
hypophysectomy1909
lobectomy1911
pinealectomy1915
lobotomy1936
leucotomy1937
tractotomy1938
thalamotomy1948
topectomy1948
gyrectomy1949
hemispherectomy1950
stereotaxy1959
lobotomization1974
1949 J. L. Pool et al. in F. A. Mettler Selective Partial Ablation of Frontal Cortex iv. 34 In 3 cases bilateral ‘gyrectomy’ was carried out; that is, removal of the superior frontal gyri..of the middle frontal gyri..and of the inferior frontal gyri.
1967 N. H. Horwitz & H. V. Rizzoli Postoperative Complications in Neurosurg. Pract. iv. 177 Destructive surgery on the cerebral hemispheres in the treatment of intractable pain has been attempted in a variety of ways to which a myriad of names has been applied (lobotomy, leucotomy, gyrectomy, topectomy, etc.).
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