lobotomist

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noun

Someone who performs lobotomies.

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Meanings

nounlobotomist (plural lobotomists)

plural lobotomists

  1. rareSomeone 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
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    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

Origin

From lobotomy + -ist.

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APA

lobotomist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lobotomist

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“lobotomist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lobotomist. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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