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surgically induced childhood

surgically induced childhood noun: an infantile personality resulting from lobotomy, once thought to be an interim stage toward maturation and recovery from the original condition that lobotomy had been used to treat.

Noun

surgically induced childhood (uncountable)

  1. (historical) An infantile personality resulting from lobotomy, once thought to be an interim stage toward maturation and recovery from the original condition that lobotomy had been used to treat.

Origin of surgically induced childhood

Coined by Walter Jackson Freeman II.

Questions about surgically induced childhood

What does surgically induced childhood mean?
Surgically induced childhood means an infantile personality resulting from lobotomy, once thought to be an interim stage toward maturation and recovery from the original condition that lobotomy had been used to treat.
What part of speech is surgically induced childhood?
Surgically induced childhood is a noun.

Words near surgically induced childhood in the dictionary

  1. surgical-gowned
  2. surgicalist
  3. surgicalists
  4. surgically
  5. surgically gowned
  6. surgically induced childhood
  7. surgicenter
  8. surgicenters
  9. surgicentre
  10. surgicentres
  11. surgiholic

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