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lobotomy

discontinued neurosurgical operation
Event alternative_medicine Q207684
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Summary

lobotomy is an alternative medicine[1]. lobotomy ranks in the top 4% of alternative medicine entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (36,608 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: António Egas Moniz[3]
  • Instance of: neurosurgical procedure[4]
  • Subclass of: psychosurgery[5]
  • Commons category: Lobotomy[6]
  • Said to be the same as: Lobotomy[7]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 1930[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Lobotomy[9]
  • Has effect: frontal lobe disorder[10]
  • Different from: lobectomy[11]
  • Health specialty: psychosurgery[12]

Why It Matters

lobotomy has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] lobotomy is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

António Egas Moniz Rosemary Kennedy

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . WordNet. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 18w ago · ~2026-33663-16 · 2026-06-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Frontal-leukotomy.jpg
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Image: Frontal-leukotomy.jpg"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Discoverer or inventor → António Egas Moniz
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Lobotomy
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ Yso id: 13904, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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