Fried calamari. In the culinary arts, calamari is a recipe prepared with squid, usually (but not always) battered and deep-fried. Calamari is the Italian word for squid (singular: calamaro), and recipes for fried calamari are found in a number of Mediterranean cuisines.
Psychosurgery is the treatment of a psychiatric disorder using surgical techniques to destroy brain tissue and is now rarely used. It is a last-resort treatment for extreme, debilitating, psychiatric disorders.
Switch to new thesaurus. frontal lobotomy, leucotomy, leukotomy, lobotomy, prefrontal leucotomy, prefrontal leukotomy. psychosurgery - brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems. transorbital lobotomy - a method of performing prefrontal lobotomy in which the surgical knife is inserted above the eyeball and moved to cut brain fibers.