gamma knife
Surgery
noun
A device that focuses beams of gamma rays on a precise point within the brain or other part of the body in order to destroy abnormal tissue.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in New Scientist.
- Attenborough, Richard
- Attenborough, Sir David
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