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lobotomist en · NOUN

Etymology

From lobotomy + -ist.

Meanings

1. (rare) Someone who performs lobotomies.
   • I can imagine a lobotomist saying, "Do you want your daughter dead or lobotomized?" 1988 December 2, Timothy Beneke, “The Case Against Therapy”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2021:
   • Freeman's career as a lobotomist was fairing as badly in the eye of the medical profession as the procedure was. 2010, Mary de Young, Madness: An American History of Mental Illness and Its Treatment, page 232:

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