noun
Meaning 1
A surgeon specializing in brain surgery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
neurosurgeon
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CMU ARPABET: N UH1 R OW0 S ER2 JH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
someone who does surgery on the nervous system (especially the brain)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: brain surgeon
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: surgeon, operating surgeon, sawbones
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh1- Proto-Indo-European *-wr̥ Proto-Indo-European *snéh1wr̥der. Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron) Ancient Greek νευρο- (neuro-)der. English neuro- English surgeon English neurosurgeon From neuro- + surgeon.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: нейрахіру́рг (njejraxirúrh) — brain surgeon
- Catalan: neurocirurgià — brain surgeon
- Czech: neurochirurg — brain surgeon
- Dutch: neurochirurg — brain surgeon
- Finnish: neurokirurgi — brain surgeon
- French: neurochirurgien — brain surgeon
- French: neurochirurgienne — brain surgeon
- Galician: neurocirurxián — brain surgeon
- German: Neurochirurg — brain surgeon
- German: Neurochirurgin — brain surgeon
- Hungarian: idegsebész — brain surgeon
- Irish: néar-mháinlia — brain surgeon
- Italian: neurochirurgo — brain surgeon
- Norwegian Bokmål: nevrokirurg — brain surgeon
- Norwegian Nynorsk: nevrokirurg — brain surgeon
- Polish: neurochirurg — brain surgeon
- Portuguese: neurocirurgião — brain surgeon
- Portuguese: neurocirurgiã — brain surgeon
- Romanian: neurochirurg — brain surgeon
- Russian: нейрохиру́рг (nejroxirúrg) — brain surgeon
- Spanish: neurocirujano — brain surgeon
- Spanish: neurocirujana — brain surgeon
- Swedish: neurokirurg — brain surgeon
- Turkish: nörocerrah — brain surgeon
- Ukrainian: нейрохіру́рг (nejroxirúrh) — brain surgeon