Examples of lobotomy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The city’s architecture bespeaks the literal whitewashing of its psyche, a kind of metaphor for the lobotomy that is being performed on collective memory. — Jerrine Tan, Wired, 4 Aug. 2022 But two things threaten to undo her emotionally: the lobotomy her husband arranged for mentally disabled daughter Rosemary, and Teddy's crisis. — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2022 Another remedy was lobotomy, pioneered by Egas Moniz, a Portuguese neurologist whose innovation earned him the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. — Richard J. Mcnally, WSJ, 13 May 2022 When Bruce was around 5, she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, subjected to a prefrontal lobotomy and confined to mental institutions. — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2022 In 1949, Antonio Egas Moniz shared the prize for his development of the lobotomy, a controversial—and now discredited—surgical procedure to cut away parts of the brain in the hope of curing mental illness. — Robert Hart, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021 The first series saw the nurse at its heart stirring up trouble in the lobotomy-friendly Lucia State Hospital in Northern California. — Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021 Tragically, a lobotomy in 1941 had left Rosemary in a wheelchair and with greatly limited speech — an injustice that Eunice never forgave. — Nick Maslow, PEOPLE.com, 9 July 2021 The lobotomy is a favorite, a swift blow with a hammer and ice pick straight through the eye socket. — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021 See More

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