Definition of "leucotomy" [leucotomy]

• Lobotomy (noun)

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• "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."