lobotomist
English
Etymology
From lobotomy + -ist.
Noun
lobotomist (plural lobotomists)
- (rare) Someone who performs lobotomies.
- 1988 December 2, Timothy Beneke, “The Case Against Therapy”, in Chicago Reader:
- I can imagine a lobotomist saying, "Do you want your daughter dead or lobotomized?"
- 2010, Mary de Young, Madness: An American History of Mental Illness and Its Treatment, page 232:
- Freeman's career as a lobotomist was fairing as badly in the eye of the medical profession as the procedure was.
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