Moniz

Moniz definition - medical

Mo·niz (mō-nēzˈ, -nēshˈ), Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas 1874-1955.

Portuguese neurosurgeon. He shared a 1949 Nobel Prize for the development of prefrontal lobotomy as a radical treatment for severe psychoses.

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