leucotome
English
Etymology
leuco- + -tome
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈluːkətəʊm/
Noun
leucotome (plural leucotomes)
- (medicine) An instrument used to perform a leucotomy.
- 1970, JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition:
- 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).
-