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psychosurgery

psychosurgery noun: surgery of the brain to treat or alleviate mental illness.

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

psychosurgery meaning in Tamil

psychosurgery in Tamil

உளநோய் அறுவை மருத்துவம்

Forms of psychosurgery

pluralpsychosurgeries

Origin of psychosurgery

From psycho- + surgery.

Words formed from psychosurgery

Questions about psychosurgery

What does psychosurgery mean?
Psychosurgery means surgery of the brain to treat or alleviate mental illness.
What is psychosurgery in Tamil?
Psychosurgery in Tamil is உளநோய் அறுவை மருத்துவம். See Psychosurgery meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is psychosurgery?
Psychosurgery is a noun.
What is the plural of psychosurgery?
The plural of psychosurgery is psychosurgeries.

Words near psychosurgery in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: psychosurgery (page history and authors); psychosurgery (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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