psychosurgery
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1. brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems (noun.act)
| hypernym | : | brain surgery, |
| definition | : | any surgical procedure involving the brain (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | amygdalotomy, |
| definition | : | psychosurgery in which amygdaloid fibers that mediate limbic system activity are severed (in cases of extreme uncontrollable violence) (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | callosectomy, callosotomy, |
| definition | : | severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy) (noun.act) |
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