brainectomy
English edit
Etymology edit
From brain + -ectomy (“surgical removal”).
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɛktəmi
Noun edit
brainectomy (countable and uncountable, plural brainectomies)
- (informal) The surgical removal of the brain.
- Synonym: encephalectomy
- 1980, Helen Faye Rosenblum, Minerva's Turn, New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 91:
- With the groundhog monopolizing his thoughts, Hawk meanly wonders whether she would favor universal lobotomy, brainectomy, for her current charges.