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neurosurgery

neurosurgery

15 6.5
An operation on the brain, spinal cord, or nerves to treat problems
  • noun
  • /ˌnʊroʊˈsɜrʤəri/
  • Specialized
translation icon : neurocirugía
  • The patient required neurosurgery to address a serious brain injury.
  • neurosurgery clinics
  • Department of Neurosurgery

Here they go and hire APHD researcher named Delgado and he's working in the Tulane neurosurgery department and neurology.

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Examples

  • Chronic sciatic pain constitutes one of the main motives for referral of afflicted patients to physiotherapy, orthopedics, and neurosurgery clinics.

    Academic text (2007)
  • The patient was taken by the neurosurgery service to the operating room, where he underwent a right temporal craniotomy.

    Academic text (2002)
  • And today he does neurosurgery on people, you know, poor people, no cost, no charge.

  • Hello, and welcome to section five in our neurosurgery series.

  • The head of neurosurgery is my boss.

  • If she had gotten to a hospital where they could have done neurosurgery, she had a chance to survive.

    Blog text (7)
  • Well, we thought that when they do neurosurgery to remove a tumor, which is commonly done, the brain is exposed.

  • The patient was transferred to our facility and evaluated by neurosurgery.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Brain cooling revolutionized the field of neurosurgery and put White one step closer to his body transplant goal.

  • Teams of interns and residents in pediatrics, trauma, and neurosurgery came in to assess and evaluate Lucas.

    Blog text (24)

Synonyms

brain surgery
vsneurosurgery
  • Specialized
24 4.1

An operation on the brain to treat illness or injury

covers treatment of that organ plus the spinal cord and peripheral nerves

How Specialized

neurosurgery
  • Specialized
15 6.5
surgery
  • Specialized
355 3.4

Surface Forms

neurosurgery singular

Morphology

neurosurgery = surgery (semi-transparent) = neuro + surgery

The meaning is clear from 'neuro' + 'surgery', but 'neuro' is a specialized combining form rather than a fully independent everyday word.

Etymology

Neurosurgery comes from the Greek part neuro- meaning 'nerve' and the familiar word surgery meaning an operation or 'hand work'. So neurosurgery is literally 'working on the nerves', which is why it is the kind of surgery that treats the brain, spinal cord, and other nerves.