Vi fant 2 definisjoner av psychosurgery på engelsk.
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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) | ||
Substantiv |
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| psychosurgery - Surgery of the brain to treat or alleviate mental illness. |