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单词 leucotomy
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leucotomyn.

Brit. /l(j)uːˈkɒtəmi/, U.S. /luˈkɑdəmi/
Etymology: < French leucotomie (E. Moniz Tentatives Opératoires dans le Traitement de certaines Psychoses (1936) viii. 195): see leuco- comb. form (here signifying the white matter of the brain) and -tomy comb. form.
Surgery.
= lobotomy n. (in spec. sense).
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > [noun] > operations on the brain
decerebration1900
hypophysectomy1909
lobectomy1911
pinealectomy1915
lobotomy1936
leucotomy1937
tractotomy1938
thalamotomy1948
topectomy1948
gyrectomy1949
hemispherectomy1950
stereotaxy1959
lobotomization1974
1937 E. Moniz in Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry XCIII. 1379 (heading) Prefrontal leucotomy in the treatment of mental disorders.
1947 Times 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.
1950 M. 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’.
1951 Lancet 21 July 91/2 (heading) Rostral leucotomy.
1958 Listener 5 June 931/2 People make moral objections to pre-frontal leucotomy even as a remedial measure.
1964 J. M. 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 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.).
1969 Times 22 Mar. 3/2 The symptoms of pre~frontal leucotomy..include lack of inhibitions and inability to concentrate.

Derivatives

ˈleucotome n. [ < French leucotome (E. Moniz 1936, in Bull. de l'Acad. de Méd. CXV. 390): see -tome comb. form] an instrument used to perform leucotomy.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > instruments used on other specific parts
bronchotome1837
kiotome1842
myotome1846
tenotome1846
syringotome1848
fourchette1854
polypotome1857
tonsillotome1857
tracheotome1857
pile clamp1875
herniotome1876
oesophagotome1884
sclerotome1885
myringotome1895
ovariotome1895
turbinotome1900
viscerotome1934
leucotome1937
1937 E. 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.
1969 New 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).
leuˈcotomize v. (transitive) to perform leucotomy on.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > perform operation on specific part or condition [verb (transitive)] > operations on brain
hypophysectomize1912
pinealectomize1933
lobotomize1952
leucotomize1959
decerebrize-
1959 Times 24 July 4/4 Where not so long ago some of these patients might have been leucotomized we now no longer do so.
leuˈcotomized adj.
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the world > health and disease > healing > patient > [adjective] > having undergone specific operations or treatments
transfused1652
necropsied1919
sympathectomized1928
thyroparathyroidectomized1932
lobotomized1943
leucotomized1951
vegetablized1974
1951 Lancet 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.
1964 J. M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. xii. 149 Authoritarians, psychotics and leucotomized patients are all poor at person perception.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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