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Leucotomy

Definition: Leucotomy

Leucotomy

Noun

1. Surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Leucotomy

Synonyms: leukotomy (n), lobotomy (n), prefrontal leucotomy (n), prefrontal leukotomy (n), prefrontal lobotomy (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Leucotomy

English words defined with "leucotomy": prefrontal leucotomy. (references)

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Expression: Leucotomy

Expression using "leucotomy": prefrontal leucotomy. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Leucotomy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  leucotomy

10
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Misspellings: Leucotomy

Misspellings

"Leucotomy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ileotomy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Leucotomy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-l-m-o-o-t-u-y"

-2 letters: outcome.

-3 letters: coelom, comely, coyote, cutely, lyceum, mooley, motley, mutely, ocelot, oocyte.

-4 letters: celom, cloot, clout, comet, comte, cooey, cooly, culet, cutey, cymol, locum, looey, molto, motel, motey, moult, mulct, muley, octyl, oleum.

-5 letters: celt, clot, cloy, clue, cole, colt, coly, come, cool, coot, cote, culm, cult, cute, cyme, elmy, loco, loom, loot, lout.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-l-m-o-o-t-u-y"
 

+1 letter: coulometry.

 

+4 letters: coterminously, countermelody.

 

+5 letters: contemptuously, conterminously, contumeliously.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Leucotomy


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 65 75 63 6F 74 6F 6D 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100101 01110101 01100011 01101111 01110100 01101111 01101101 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#101 &#117 &#99 &#111 &#116 &#111 &#109 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0065 0075 0063 006F 0074 006F 006D 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

467187698186817991

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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