brain surgery

1. 1.

   any surgical procedure involving the brain

   Broaderoperation

   Narrowerpsychosurgerysplit-brain technique

Questions about brain surgery

What does brain surgery mean?

brain surgery means "any surgical procedure involving the brain".

Is brain surgery a common word?

brain surgery 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.