brainectomy

noun

brainectomy

noun

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

1

Informal The surgical removal of the brain.

With the groundhog monopolizing his thoughts, Hawk meanly wonders whether she would favor universal lobotomy, brainectomy, for her current charges.1980, Helen Faye Rosenblum, Minerva's Turn, New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 91:

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