brain surgery
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4.1
- noun
- /breɪn ˈsɜrdʒəri/
- Specialized
:
cirugía cerebral
- Now my son may have to have brain surgery because his soft spot fused too early.
- undergo brain surgery
- perform brain surgery
- recovering from brain surgery
It was that in combination with seeing some awake brain surgeries that our department is really well known for.
- It was that in combination with seeing some awake brain surgeries that our department is really well known for.
- And after brain surgery, you kind of just have this big hole in your head, like this void.
- Way harder than physics of brain surgery, way harder.
- And you know, any job that has two things, Rocket science, brain surgery, I'm one thing.
- So you know, I can't, no matter how inventive I am, I can't go invent a new kind of brain surgery.
- She had a like brain surgery and then, yeah, she came, came home for a while.
- I was like, OK, like, so he's going to have brain surgery and, you know, that's what's going to happen.
- So it was like water in the brain abscessed water excess, and he got brain surgery when he was in college.
- Daughter with brain surgery at four years old and then new baby coming.
- You don't have to do brain surgery on the the, the animal to do it.
Examples
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Almost immediately after his doctor discovered the tumor, he was at Swedish Cancer Institute for brain surgery.
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After the brain surgery, the patient was carefully monitored in the recovery room for any complications.
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Well, the brain surgery was a complete success.
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Now I was being told I needed brain surgery.
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My doctor has asked me if I will speak to patients before brain surgery.
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Six hours of brain surgery would accomplish what years of therapy, rumination, and denial could not.
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Even the slightest miscalculation during brain surgery can have dramatic consequences for the patient.
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He had gained some notoriety because of his work in experimental brain surgery.
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The neurosurgeon explained that the brain surgery would take several hours and required careful planning.
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Patients often have questions about what to expect before and after brain surgery.
Synonyms
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3.4
The part of medicine that treats illness or injury by doing operations
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6.5
An operation on the brain, spinal cord, or nerves to treat problems
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9.5
Surgery in which doctors remove a piece of the skull to reach the brain
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9.9
Operation to remove part of the skull to reduce pressure on the brain
How Invasive
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4.1
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a medical operation on the brain' is directly and transparently derived from combining brain (the organ controlling thought) with surgery (a medical operation). This noun–noun composition is a regular, compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words would readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Brain surgery comes from a simple, literal picture: doctors open the head to reach the brain and do surgery to fix a problem. So it means 'an operation on the brain' to treat disease or injury.