Definition of psychosurgery Psychosurgery
psy•cho•sur•ger•y
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What does psychosurgery mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: psychosurgeries |
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| psychosurgery - brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems | ||
| brain surgery any surgical procedure involving the brain | ||
| amygdalotomy psychosurgery in which amygdaloid fibers that mediate limbic system activity are severed (in cases of extreme uncontrollable violence) | ||
| callosectomy, callosotomy severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy) | ||
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Wiktionary 
- psychosurgery (Noun)
Surgery of the brain to treat or alleviate mental illness .
