gyrectomy Surg.
(dʒaɪəˈrɛktəmɪ)
[f. gyrus + -ectomy.]
Surgical excision or resection of a gyrus of the brain.
| 1949 J. L. Pool et al. in F. A. Mettler Selective Partial Ablation of Frontal Cortex iv. 34 In 3 cases bilateral ‘gyrectomy’ was carried out; that is, removal of the superior frontal gyri..of the middle frontal gyri..and of the inferior frontal gyri. 1967 Horwitz & Rizzoli Postoperative Complications in Neurosurg. Pract. iv. 177 Destructive surgery on the cerebral hemispheres in the treatment of intractable pain has been attempted in a variety of ways to which a myriad of names has been applied (lobotomy, leucotomy, gyrectomy, topectomy, etc.). |