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Use "leucotomy" in a sentence
"Professor Valenstein deals particularly with the mutilating brain operation known as a leucotomy — or, in the US, lobotomy — which was performed on tens of thousands of people before its decline in popularity during the 1950s."
"Not only psychiatry, but methods popular earlier in the twentieth century, such as the prefrontal leucotomy, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and insulin coma therapy, lay thoroughly discredited."
"Also in parallel, extreme remedies including electroconvulsive therapy, prefrontal leucotomy, and insulin coma therapy became popular."