neurosurgery

1. 1.

   any surgery that involves the nervous system (brain or spinal cord or peripheral nerves)

   Broaderoperation

Other forms of neurosurgery

plural

neurosurgeries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about neurosurgery

What does neurosurgery mean?

neurosurgery means "any surgery that involves the nervous system (brain or spinal cord or peripheral nerves)".

How many syllables are in neurosurgery?

neurosurgery has 5 syllables: neur-o-sur-ge-ry. The stress falls on "sur". In IPA it is /ˌnʊɹoʊˈsɝdʒɚi/.