labotomy

English

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.