lobotomy

[LOBE + -TOMY.]

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1. What a hacker subjected to formal management training is said to have undergone. At IBM and elsewhere this term is used by both hackers and low-level management; the latter doubtless intend it as a joke.

2. The act of removing the processor from a microcomputer in order to replace or upgrade it. Some very cheap clone systems are sold in lobotomized form — everything but the brain.

A surgical incision into one or more of the nerve masses in the front of the brain. A lobotomy may be performed for the relief of certain mental disorders, although it has been largely abandoned in favor of less radical treatments.

Cutting of nerve fibers connecting a lobe of the brain with the thalamus. In most cases the affected parts are the prefrontal or frontal lobes; thus the operation is referred to as prefrontal, or frontal, lobotomy. Performed in humans as a form of psychosurgery. It has been applied in dogs for the treatment of aggressive behavior, but is of limited usefulness.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - lobotomi, det hvide snit

Nederlands (Dutch)
lobotomie, operatieve verwijdering van kwab

Français (French)
n. - lobotomie

Deutsch (German)
n. - (Med.) Leukotomie

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (ιατρ.) λοβοτομή, λοβοτομία

Italiano (Italian)
lobotomia

Português (Portuguese)
n. - lobotomia (f) (Med.)

Русский (Russian)
лоботомия, разрез доли органа

Español (Spanish)
n. - lobotomía

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - (läk.) lobotomi, leukotomi

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
脑白质切断术, 叶切断术

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 腦白質切斷術, 葉切斷術

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 전두엽 절제술

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 白質切除

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الجراحه الفصيه, جراحه تجرى في فصوص المخ الجبهيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮כריתת אונת-המוח‬

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