Associations to the word «Leucotomy»

Wiktionary

LEUCOTOMY, noun. Lobotomy

Dictionary definition

LEUCOTOMY, noun. Surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope