Meaning
A surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically (neurosurgery), a procedure, now largely disused, involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and the thalamic region of the frontal lobe of the brain to treat certain mental illnesses.
Etymology
Origin: Unknown
From lob(e) + -otomy (a variant of -tomy (suffix denoting a surgical incision)).
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
leucotomyprefrontal lobotomyprefrontal leucotomyleukotomyamygdalotomyankylotomyarteriotomyblepharotomycaesareancardiotomy
NYT Puzzle Appearances
No published puzzle dates on file for this word yet. It is part of the official NYT Spelling Bee word list for 2019, 2020, 2021.