brain surgeon

1. 1.

   someone who does surgery on the nervous system (especially the brain)

   Synonymsneurosurgeon

   Broadersurgeon

Questions about brain surgeon

What does brain surgeon mean?

brain surgeon means "someone who does surgery on the nervous system (especially the brain)".

What is another word for brain surgeon?

Close synonyms include neurosurgeon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brain surgeon a common word?

brain surgeon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.