radiosurgeryn.
/ˌreɪdɪəʊˈsəːdʒ(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌreɪdioʊˈsərdʒ(ə)ri/ Medicine.
1. Originally: the surgical implantation of radium. In later use: treatment with both surgery and radiotherapy. Now rare.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > [noun] > types of surgery generally
plastic surgery1837
self-surgery1863
oral surgery1866
electrosurgery1870
Listerism1880
morioplasty1880
brain surgery1881
tachytomy1898
neurosurgery1904
radiosurgery1929
psychosurgery1936
microsurgery1959
microsurgery1960
cryosurgery1962
day surgery1968
work1968
biosurgery1969
psychic surgery1975
telesurgery1976
1929 Lancet 5 Jan. 2/1 To secure this characteristic advantage of radium to the full a new branch of surgery has arisen which has received the name of radio-surgery.
1935 IV. Internationaler Radiologenkongress Zürich 1934 IV. 136 Apart from the special branch of radiosurgery, the surgical institutions all over the world are already adequately equipped.
1996 Radiotherapy & Oncol. 40 233 Assessment of morbidity in 33 cases [of cervical carcinoma] treated by combined radio-surgery or definitive radiotherapy.
2. Highly focused radiotherapy, esp. for the ablation of lesions of the brain. Esp. in stereotaxic or stereotactic radiosurgery.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by radiation > [noun]
radiotherapeutics1897
irradiation1901
radiotherapy1902
ray therapy1912
radiation treatment1913
radiation therapy1922
radiosurgery1951
1951 Acta Chirurgica Scandinavica 102 316 The stereotaxic method and radiosurgery of the brain.
1958 Nature 1 Nov. 1222/1 The possible application of heavy-particle beams to stereotaxic radiosurgery in man.
1963 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 19 Sept. 597/2 In 1954 we set out upon a study in clinical medicine in which these high-energy protons and alpha particles have been used in various forms of so-called ‘bloodless’ surgery, or radiosurgery.
1990 Independent on Sunday 11 Feb. (Review Suppl.) 50/2 Lynn is one of a small number of people in Britain to undergo stereotactic radio-surgery, a dramatic new treatment for malformations of the brain.
2006 Med. Physics 33 1603 The main technical limitation to radiosurgery is that the target can be selected only on the basis of magnetic resonance anatomy without electrophysiological confirmation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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