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BRAIN SURGERY
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I. (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)
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