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neurosurgery

[ noor-oh-sur-juh-ree, nyoor- ]

noun

  1. surgery of the brain or other nerve tissue.


neurosurgery

/ ˌnjʊərəʊˈsɜːdʒərɪ /

noun

  1. the branch of surgery concerned with the nervous system
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


neurosurgery

/ nr′ō-sûrjə-rē /

  1. Surgery on any part of the nervous system, such as the brain or spinal cord.


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Derived Forms

  • ˈneuroˌsurgeon, noun
  • ˌneuroˈsurgical, adjective
  • ˌneuroˈsurgically, adverb
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Other Words From

  • neu·ro·sur·geon [n, oo, r-oh-, sur, -j, uh, n, ny, oo, r-], noun
  • neuro·surgi·cal adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of neurosurgery1

First recorded in 1900–05; neuro- + surgery
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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.

From Time

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.

From Ozy

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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