labotomy

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Noun

labotomy

  1. Misspelling of lobotomy.
    • 2009, William Jeynes, Getting Closer to God, IAP, page 123:
      To crack the persecution ring, you had to take the great of going inside the areas where they kept the labotomy patients and performed the surgery.
    • 2015 December 26, "SaintSeiya Power Of The Cosmos" (username), Chemical labotomy and Chemical castration, in forum.schizophrenia.com:
      One medical professional claims these meds Risperdal, Olanzpine, Haldol, Invenga and so on cause Labotomy and castrations to the body.
    • 1982, Robert N. List, Dedalus in Harlem: The Joyce-Ellison Connection:
      This scene appears to be the genesis for the ordeal of Alex in Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange where a frontal labotomy actually succeeds ...
    • 2016, J. Moncrieff, The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment, Springer, →ISBN, page 33:
      For current purposes the importance of labotomy lies in the fact that psychiatric disorders were being treated by brain surgery, which confirmed the idea that they originated from brain pathology.
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