How do you use Lobotomy in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like leucotomy or psychosurgery, plus the exact meaning.
Lobotomy in a sentence
Lobotomy meaning
- A surgical operation on the frontal lobe of the brain intent on treating certain mental illnesses.
- The severing of the prefrontal cortex from the thalamic region of the brain.
- The severing of the sympathetic nerve trunk.
Synonyms of Lobotomy
Using Lobotomy
- The main meaning on this page is: A surgical operation on the frontal lobe of the brain intent on treating certain mental illnesses. | The severing of the prefrontal cortex from the thalamic region of the brain. | The severing of the sympathetic nerve trunk.
- Useful related words include: leukotomy, leucotomy, prefrontal lobotomy, prefrontal leukotomy.
- In the example corpus, lobotomy often appears in combinations such as: lobotomy had, lobotomy the, of lobotomy.
Context around Lobotomy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 15 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lobotomy
- In this selection, "lobotomy" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, full, buttons, botched, survivor, procedure and didn stand out and add context to how "lobotomy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a botched lobotomy and he and a full lobotomy as the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lobotomy" sits close to words such as aarons, abra and accelerations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lobotomy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Mister Buttons: lobotomy survivor: Gyrfalcon: America is going to collapse in about six weeks. (14 words)
Sadly, many people who received a lobotomy had even bigger problems than Phineas Gage did. (15 words)
It retains the original name and uses Lobotomy Software's own fully 3D SlaveDriver engine. (15 words)
He described one 29-year-old woman as being, following lobotomy, a "smiling, lazy and satisfactory patient with the personality of an oyster" who couldn't remember Freeman's name and endlessly poured coffee from an empty pot. (38 words)
Edgemar warns that Quaid is headed for lunacy (his description loosely predicting later events) and a lobotomy if he does not return to reality, then offers Quaid a pill that would waken him from the dream. (36 words)
Emphasis was put on the training of patients in the weeks and months following surgery.sfn Freeman coined the term "surgically induced childhood" and used it constantly to refer the results of lobotomy. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Anyone voting with or for him needs a full lobotomy as the last one hasn’t worked.
Sadly, many people who received a lobotomy had even bigger problems than Phineas Gage did.
Mister Buttons: lobotomy survivor: Gyrfalcon: America is going to collapse in about six weeks.
Taken by Walter Freeman, who specialized in lobotomy, the pictures were used to claim that the patients had recovered and in order to sell the now-discredited method.
This patient was a 32-year-old telephone operator who had already had a lobotomy when the picture was taken, left, in February 1936 but was still suffering with illness.
Williams’ real-life sister Rose was left incapacitated by a botched lobotomy, and he spent much of his life and royalties on her care.
A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace Fiennes, employs the introverted young man as a photographer to document an asylum tour advocating for his increasingly controversial lobotomy procedure.
The profound diplomatic shift—part Faustian bargain, part moral lobotomy—didn’t just invite the Soviet Union into the community of nations.
There, she found Edward pinned to an operating table, as Jane prepared to perform a lobotomy on him to rid him of the evil she believed was inside of him.
Well the actress did react to the troll but stared up a savage statement from the troll who recommended an urgent lobotomy for the actress.
By the 1970s, the standard or transorbital lobotomy had been replaced with other forms of psychosurgical operations.
Edgemar warns that Quaid is headed for lunacy (his description loosely predicting later events) and a lobotomy if he does not return to reality, then offers Quaid a pill that would waken him from the dream.
Emphasis was put on the training of patients in the weeks and months following surgery.sfn Freeman coined the term "surgically induced childhood" and used it constantly to refer the results of lobotomy.
He described one 29-year-old woman as being, following lobotomy, a "smiling, lazy and satisfactory patient with the personality of an oyster" who couldn't remember Freeman's name and endlessly poured coffee from an empty pot.
However, chlorpromazine proved to reduce the effects of psychosis in a more effective and specific manner than lobotomy, even though it was known to be capable of causing severe sedation.
Huxley hypothesized that frogs that undergo lobotomy would swim when thrown into water, despite being unable to initiate actions.
In 1943, as her behavior became increasingly disturbing, she was subjected to a lobotomy with disastrous results and was subsequently institutionalized for the rest of her life.
In 2011, a Yale neurosurgeon studied Evita's skull x-rays and photographic evidence and said that Perón may have been given a prefrontal lobotomy in the last months of her life, ".
In the original ending, Jean does not revert to Dark Phoenix, and the Shi'ar subject her to a "psychic lobotomy", permanently removing all her telepathic or telekinetic powers.
It retains the original name and uses Lobotomy Software's own fully 3D SlaveDriver engine.
Common combinations with lobotomy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- lobotomy had 2×
- lobotomy the 2×
- of lobotomy 2×