lobotomy

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ləˈbɒtəmi/
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• General-American: /ləˈbɑtəmi/
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• General-American: [-ɾə-]
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• rhymes with -ɒtəmi
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• CMU ARPABET: L OW1 B OW2 T OW2 M IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From lob(e) + -otomy (a variant of -tomy (suffix denoting a surgical incision)).

53 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: lobotomia — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Arabic: جراحة فصية — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Azerbaijani: lobotomiya — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Bashkir: лоботоми́я (lobotomíya) — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Basque: lobotomia — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Belarusian: лабатамія (labatamija) — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Bulgarian: лоботоми́я (lobotomíja) — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Catalan: lobotomia — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Chinese Mandarin: 腦葉切除術 /脑叶切除术 (nǎoyèqiēchúshù) — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Chinese Mandarin: 前腦葉白質切除術 /前脑叶白质切除术 (qiánnǎoyèbáizhíqiēchúshù) — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Czech: lobotomie — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Danish: lobotomi — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Danish: det hvide snit — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Dutch: lobotomie — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Esperanto: lobotomio — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Estonian: lobotoomia — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Finnish: lobotomia — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• French: lobotomie — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• West-Frisian: lobotomy — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Galician: lobotomía — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Georgian: ლობოტომია (loboṭomia) — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• German: Lobotomie — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Greek: λοβοτομή (lovotomí) — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Hebrew: לובוטומיה — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Hindi: मस्तिष्कखंडछेदन (mastiṣkakhaṇḍchedan) — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Hungarian: lobotómia — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Icelandic: hvítuskurður — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Indonesian: lobotomi — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Italian: lobotomia — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Japanese: ロボトミー (robotomī) — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Korean: 뇌엽 절제술 (noeyeop jeoljesul) — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Latvian: lobotomija — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Lithuanian: lobotomija — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Macedonian: лобото́мија (lobotómija) — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Malay: lobotomi — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Maltese: lobotomija — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Norwegian Bokmål: lobotomi — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lobotomi — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Persian: لوبوتومی — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Polish: lobotomia — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Portuguese: lobotomia — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Romanian: lobotomie — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Russian: лоботоми́я (lobotomíja) — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Serbo-Croatian: лобото̀мија — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Serbo-Croatian: lobotòmija — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Slovak: lobotómia — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Spanish: lobotomía — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Swedish: lobotomi — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Turkish: lobotomi — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Ukrainian: лоботомі́я (lobotomíja) — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Veps: lobotomii — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Vietnamese: phẫu thuật thuỳ não — surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically a procedure involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and other parts of the frontal lobe of the brain
• Finnish: lobotomia — act of removing or separating, and often disregarding or forgetting, something