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leucotomes

leucotomes is the plural of leucotome.

Meaning of leucotome

Noun

leucotome (plural leucotomes)

  1. An instrument used to perform a leucotomy.
    • All sorts of rubbish is lying in the sand: a typewriter with half the keys missing (he picks out fragmentary sentences, sometimes these seem to mean something), a smashed neurosurgical unit (he pockets a handful of leucotomes, useful for self-defence).1970, JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition

Questions about leucotomes

What is leucotomes the plural of?
Leucotomes is the plural of leucotome.

Words near leucotomes in the dictionary

  1. leucothoes
  2. leucothoid
  3. leucothoids
  4. leucotic
  5. leucotome
  6. leucotomes
  7. leucotomies
  8. leucotomy
  9. leucotoxic
  10. leucotoxicity
  11. leucotoxin

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