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prefrontal leucotomy, prefrontal lobotomy

prefrontal leucotomy, prefrontal lobotomy

A surgical operation to cut the white fibres that connect the PREFRONTAL lobes of the brain to the THALAMUS. This operation is now rarely performed.

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