Someone who does surgery on the nervous system (especially the brain)

Usage examples of neurosurgeon.

It was a technique associated especially with the Montreal neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, and in its early period at least, in the 1950s, required that the site of the epileptic focus be identified by exposing the surface of the brain and then probing it with electrodes through which current could be passed so as to stimulate electrically the cells with which they came into contact.

Two neurosurgeons, two general surgeons, two vascular surgeons, and of course, a slew of nurses and scrub techs.

A tinge of blood covered the gauze dressing over the spot where the neurosurgeons had drilled the hole in her skull.

When the ligature of the carotid branches began and the neurosurgeons could take a small break, Hamid-Jones saw the circulating nurses touch helmets with the neurosurgery chief, who sent a thoughtful glance in his direction.

The story of the dead neurosurgeon and the crashed plane had been bad, but to Gard's mind, the story above the fold - the one Newt and Dick had ignored - was much worse.

I specialize in genetic disease and repair-too often after the fact, even today-and my husband's one of the Star Kingdom's three top neurosurgeons.

A classic study on higher brain function is the work of the Canadian neurosurgeon, Wilder Penfield, on the electrical stimulation of various parts of the cerebral cortex, generally in attempts to relieve symptoms of a disease such as psychomotor epilepsy.