BRAIN SURGERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brain surgery mean? 

• BRAIN SURGERY (noun)
  The noun BRAIN SURGERY has 1 sense:

1. any surgical procedure involving the brain

  Familiarity information: BRAIN SURGERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAIN SURGERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any surgical procedure involving the brain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("brain surgery" is a kind of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brain surgery"):

psychosurgery (brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems)

split-brain technique (brain surgery on animals in which the corpus callosum (and sometimes the optic chiasm) is severed so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted)

 Context examples 

A drug used to treat or prevent seizures or convulsions that may be caused by epilepsy, brain surgery, or treatment for brain cancer.

(Dilantin, NCI Dictionary)

Scientists from UFRJ used healthy tissues of adult patients who had been submitted to brain surgery but had no Zika.

(Zika virus found to harm adults’ memory and motor system, Agência Brasil/EBC)

One other note: I have a Sagittarius friend who had a serious brain surgery this year.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Examples include markers inserted in the prostate gland for visualization of the site affected by cancer, prior to radiation therapy; markers taped to the scalp prior to imaging in frameless stereotactic brain surgery; and femoral and tibial pins used for spatial orientation in total knee replacement.

(Fiducial marker, NCI Thesaurus)