lobotomist

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English

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Etymology

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From lobotomy +‎ -ist.

Noun

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lobotomist (plural lobotomists)

  1. (rare) Someone who performs lobotomies.
    • 1988 December 2, Timothy Beneke, “The Case Against Therapy”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      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[2], page 232:
      Freeman's career as a lobotomist was fairing as badly in the eye of the medical profession as the procedure was.