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Definition of psychosurgical in English:

psychosurgical

Pronunciation /-ˈsərjikəl/

adjective

See psychosurgery

‘There was a lot of suspicion that the Department of Justice was going to perform massive psychosurgical procedures on violent prisoners as a means of social control.’
  • ‘Postoperative verification of radiosurgical lesions in white matter has been difficult to obtain with CT. With magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, however, lesions could be demonstrated in patients undergoing a psychosurgical procedure, gamma capsulotomy, for anxiety disorder.’