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brain surgery

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Noun1.brain surgerybrain surgery - any surgical procedure involving the brain
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
surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, surgery, operation - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"


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13 because of pneumonia and slipped into a coma following brain surgery.
Our prayers go to South Dakota Democrat Senator Tim Johnson and his family as he recovers from brain surgery.
But when she receives a message from her old friends in the Smoke, she's reminded of her mission: to test a cure for the brain surgery that dulls the minds of pretties.
 
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