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psychosurgeries

psychosurgeries is the plural of psychosurgery.

Meaning of psychosurgery

Noun

psychosurgery (countable and uncountable, plural psychosurgeries)

  1. Surgery of the brain to treat or alleviate mental illness.
    • This was studied in humans where amygdalotomies were done not to control seizures but to control aggression. Such psychosurgery provoked fiery controversy in the 1970s. And I don't mean scientists not saying hello to each other at conferences. I mean a major public shit storm.2017, Robert Sapolsky, chapter 2, in Behave, Penguin, →ISBN

Questions about psychosurgeries

What is psychosurgeries the plural of?
Psychosurgeries is the plural of psychosurgery.

Words near psychosurgeries in the dictionary

  1. psychostress
  2. psychostressor
  3. psychostressors
  4. psychosurgeon
  5. psychosurgeons
  6. psychosurgeries
  7. psychosurgery
  8. psychosurgical
  9. psychosyndrome
  10. psychosyndromes
  11. psychosyntheses

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