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- noun Plural form of
cingulotomy .
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Examples
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I've taken all the medications with poor results and insisted at age 30 to have two experimental cingulotomies (minor brain surgery; frontal lobes).
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One response I’ve heard to the case of the people getting cingulotomies (I think that’s the surgery you bring up at the end) is that most physical pains have two components — the bad feeling, and a certain nonconceptual sense of bodily injury.
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