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neurosurgery
[ noor-oh-sur-juh-ree, nyoor- ]
neurosurgery
/ ˌnjʊərəʊˈsɜːdʒərɪ /
noun
- the branch of surgery concerned with the nervous system
neurosurgery
/ nr′ō-sûr′jə-rē /
- Surgery on any part of the nervous system, such as the brain or spinal cord.
Derived Forms
- ˈneuroˌsurgeon, noun
- ˌneuroˈsurgical, adjective
- ˌneuroˈsurgically, adverb
Other Words From
- neu·ro·sur·geon [n, oo, r-oh-, sur, -j, uh, n, ny, oo, r-], noun
- neuro·surgi·cal adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of neurosurgery1
Example Sentences
Only years later would the Dallas district attorney’s office discover through a search of hospital records that although a typical neurosurgery resident completes about 1,000 operations during their training, Duntsch had actually done fewer than 100.
I was back in my practice residency at Michigan, and then came to Atlanta to take a job in neurosurgery and ran into Tom Johnson.
This “lucid interval” is found in nearly half of all cases of epidural hematoma (Bullock, Neurosurgery, 2006).
"That's a very unusual finding," says Dr. Keith Black, chairman of neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
He is chief of the neurosurgery department and professor of the neurosurgery.
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