brain surgeon
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- noun
- /breɪn ˈsɜrdʒən/
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neurocirujano
- I want a brain surgeon, and I want a really good gas man.
- become a brain surgeon
- famous brain surgeon
- want a brain surgeon
Well, no, I you need a little training to be a brain surgeon.
- Well, no, I you need a little training to be a brain surgeon.
- Raul Jandial is a dual trained brain surgeon and neuroscientist at City of Hope in Los Angeles.
- So if someone's got, let's say, a heart problem, a brain problem, and they need that heart problem or brain problem fixed while they're going to go to a brain surgeon or a heart surgeon.
- They're not, by the way, all brain surgeons and nurses, these people coming in.
- So he became the rocket scientist and I became the brain surgeon, but that worked out.
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The brain surgeon, Dr. Saijo, is already in an operation.
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As someone posted earlier, do you want the fresh-out-of-college brain surgeon or the more experienced one?
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Consider how much liability, risk, and education goes into being a brain surgeon.
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I would like to remind our viewers who may not know that Ben Carson was, before he went into politics, one of, if not the best brain surgeon in the world.
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In other words, yes, brain surgeons are well-paid and enjoy a prestigious career, and rightly so.
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Raul Jandial is a dual trained brain surgeon and neuroscientist at City of Hope in Los Angeles.
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Dr. Brown is one of the premier brain surgeons in the United States.
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The brain surgeon, Dr. Saijo, is already in an operation.
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Raul Jandial is a dual trained brain surgeon and neuroscientist at City of Hope in Los Angeles.
Synonyms
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A doctor who operates on the brain and spinal cord
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and predictably derived from combining 'brain' (the organ) with 'surgeon' (a medical professional who performs surgery) to yield a surgeon who operates on the brain. This noun–noun compounding follows regular compositional patterns that are common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Brain surgeon comes from the simple image of a surgeon working on the brain, a doctor carefully operating inside the head. So, it means 'a medical doctor who performs surgery on the brain and nervous system'.