Usually means: Surgical cutting of nerve tracts.
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  1. tractotomy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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  1. tractotomy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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noun:  (surgery) The surgical excision of nerve tracts in the medulla of the brain.

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