brainectomy

English

Etymology

From brain +‎ -ectomy (“surgical removal”).

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɛktəmi

Noun

brainectomy (countable and uncountable, plural brainectomies)

  1. (informal) The surgical removal of the brain.
    Synonym: encephalectomy
    • 1980, Helen Faye Rosenblum, Minerva's Turn, New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 91:
      With the groundhog monopolizing his thoughts, Hawk meanly wonders whether she would favor universal lobotomy, brainectomy, for her current charges.
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