brain surgery

/breɪn ˌsʌrdʒəri/

Definitions of brain surgery

1. noun

   any surgical procedure involving the brain
   types:

   psychosurgery

   brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems

   split-brain technique

   brain surgery on animals in which the corpus callosum (and sometimes the optic chiasm) is severed so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted

   amygdalotomy

   psychosurgery in which amygdaloid fibers that mediate limbic system activity are severed (in cases of extreme uncontrollable violence)

   callosectomy, callosotomy

   severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy)

   frontal lobotomy, leucotomy, leukotomy, lobotomy, prefrontal leucotomy, prefrontal leukotomy, prefrontal lobotomy

   surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes

   type of:

   operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process

   a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body