NEUROSURGERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neurosurgery mean? 

• NEUROSURGERY (noun)
  The noun NEUROSURGERY has 1 sense:

1. any surgery that involves the nervous system (brain or spinal cord or peripheral nerves)

  Familiarity information: NEUROSURGERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEUROSURGERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any surgery that involves the nervous system (brain or spinal cord or peripheral nerves)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("neurosurgery" 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)