English

Etymology
From leucotomy.

Pronunciation
IPA: /'lu:k�t��m/

Noun
leucotome

1. medicine an instrument used to perform a leucotomy

#:*1970: All sorts of rubbish is lying in the sand: a typewriter with half the keys missing (he picks out fragmentary sentences, sometimes these seem to mean something), a smashed neurosurgical unit (he pockets a handful of leucotomes, useful for self-defence). � JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition

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