neurosurgeryn.
/ˈnjʊərə(ʊ)ˌsəːdʒ(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌn(j)ʊroʊˈsərdʒəri/ Surgery.
Surgery of the nervous system, esp. the brain and spinal cord.
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plastic surgery1837
self-surgery1863
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electrosurgery1870
Listerism1880
morioplasty1880
brain surgery1881
tachytomy1898
neurosurgery1904
radiosurgery1929
psychosurgery1936
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day surgery1968
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1904 Alienist & Neurologist 25 404 (heading) Neurosurgery. Trigeminal neuralgia treated by intraneural injections of osmic acid.
1937 Surgery 1 132 With the later days of Victor Horsley in England and the early days of Harvey Cushing in America, neurosurgery may truly be said to have been born.
1966 Lancet 24 Dec. 1400/1 A speciality like neuro-surgery requires an extra year's training.
1983 D. Stafford-Clark & A. C. Smith Psychiatry for Students (ed. 6) xviii. 263 Stricter procedures are provided for the rare cases of irreversible treatments such as functional neurosurgery.
1991 Canberra Times 31 Jan. 8/6 The nature of specialisation in neurosurgery and cranial-facial work means that unpredictable emergency work is ever-present.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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