Definitions | leucotome |
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- (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
Etymology: From leucotomy.
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