brain surgery
Noun
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is a type of: operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living bodysubtypes:
- psychosurgery - brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems
- split-brain technique - brain surgery on animals in which the corpus callosum (and sometimes the optic chiasm) is severed so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted
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