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Any surgery that involves the nervous system (brain or spinal cord or peripheral nerves)
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neurosurgery
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Neurosurgery (or neurological surgery ) is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain , spinal cord , peripheral nerves , ...
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n. 1 (context neurology surgery uncountable English) The surgical discipline focused on treating those central and peripheral nervous system diseases. 2 (context neurology surgery countable English) Any surgical procedure performed on the brain; brain surgery. ...
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n. any surgery that involves the nervous system (brain or spinal cord or peripheral nerves)
Usage examples of neurosurgery.
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.
Between Naraht and the as-yet-unconfirmed rescue ship all using him as a beacon, and Intelligence using him as an ambulatory information-gathering system, what McCoy most looked forward to about completing this mission and getting home safe was to lie down on a nice friendly neurosurgery table and let Johnny Russell take the hardware out of his head.
Jones’s letter stated that he had decided to leave Philadelphia and hoped to practice neurosurgery in a nonurban area of the Northeast.
But there was also a red tag, which meant neurosurgery, and a yellow tag, which meant intensive care, and a white tag, which Morris had almost never seen on a patient's chart.