Infections Associated with Pantoea Bacteria. Pantoea bacteria belong to a large group of organisms of the Enterobacteriaceae family, also called enteric bacilli. All members of Enterobacteriaceae are Gram-negative bacilli or coccobacilli ranging from 0.3 Âµm to 1.0 Âµm wide by 0.6 Âµm to 6.0 Âµm long. When Gram-stained, all Enterobacteriaceae look alike.
The noun LOBOTOMY has 1 sense: 1. surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes. Familiarity information: LOBOTOMY used as a noun is very rare.
About 50,000 people received lobotomies in the United States, most of them between 1949 and 1952. About 10,000 of these procedures were transorbital lobotomies. The rest were mostly prefrontal lobotomies. Walter Freeman performed about 3,500 lobotomies during his career, of which 2,500 were his ice-pick procedure.