Surgical Cutting of Nerves in the Brain
This page is the CodyCross answer for the clue below from La Bella Roma, Group 408, Puzzle 4 (Mount Vesuvius).
Question is: Surgical Cutting of Nerves in the Brain
and the answer is: LOBOTOMY
Word Meaning:
LOBOTOMY — (surgery, chiefly historical) A surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically (neurosurgery), a procedure, now largely disused, involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and the thalamic region of the frontal lobe of the brain to treat certain mental illnesses.
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