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.
The frontal cortex, or frontal lobe, of the brain is removed or partially damaged in a lobotomy. Talk therapy, medication and other treatments have virtually completed replaced lobotomies.Lobotomies were historically used to treat patients who suffered with psychological illnesses.Patients can enter comas and persistent vegetative states after lobotomies. Lobotomies caused some patients to enter a persistent vegetative state.oday, doctors sometimes perform what is known as psychosurgery, a form of neurosurgery which involves selective destruction of the brain, to treat very specific conditions.