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词汇 psychosurgery
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Definition of psychosurgery in English:

psychosurgery

noun sʌɪkə(ʊ)ˈsəːdʒ(ə)riˌsaɪkoʊˈsərdʒəri
mass noun
  • Brain surgery, such as leucotomy, used to treat mental disorder.

    精神外科(如脑白质切断术)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But in 1935, the distinguished Portuguese neuroscientist, Egas Moniz, directed the first prefrontal lobotomy, and this marked the real beginning of modern psychosurgery.
    • Although Lucio's symptoms gradually abated, and despite Dr. Nise's strong objections, he was subjected to a then popular form of psychosurgery - lobotomy.
    • In general, that's sort of a fuzzy borderline between psychosurgery and neurological surgery.
    • But you can regard cosmetic surgery as being almost psychosurgery in that many of the conditions we are treating, even in people that are well adjusted, are in fact a psychological perception of aging of physical deformity.
    • But I doubt that many people would be aware that psychosurgery, or brain surgery, is being done to treat mental illness or behavioural problems today.

Derivatives

  • psychosurgical

  • adjective
    • Postoperative verification of radiosurgical lesions in white matter has been difficult to obtain with CT. With magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, however, lesions could be demonstrated in patients undergoing a psychosurgical procedure, gamma capsulotomy, for anxiety disorder.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There was a lot of suspicion that the Department of Justice was going to perform massive psychosurgical procedures on violent prisoners as a means of social control.

Definition of psychosurgery in US English:

psychosurgery

nounˌsaɪkoʊˈsərdʒəriˌsīkōˈsərjərē
  • Brain surgery, such as lobotomy, used to treat mental disorder.

    精神外科(如脑白质切断术)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In general, that's sort of a fuzzy borderline between psychosurgery and neurological surgery.
    • But you can regard cosmetic surgery as being almost psychosurgery in that many of the conditions we are treating, even in people that are well adjusted, are in fact a psychological perception of aging of physical deformity.
    • But I doubt that many people would be aware that psychosurgery, or brain surgery, is being done to treat mental illness or behavioural problems today.
    • But in 1935, the distinguished Portuguese neuroscientist, Egas Moniz, directed the first prefrontal lobotomy, and this marked the real beginning of modern psychosurgery.
    • Although Lucio's symptoms gradually abated, and despite Dr. Nise's strong objections, he was subjected to a then popular form of psychosurgery - lobotomy.
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