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neurosurgeon

American  
[nyoo-roh-sur-juhn] / ˈnyʊ roʊˌsɜr dʒən /

noun

  1. a physician who specializes in neurosurgery.


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The two students killed were Ella Cook, vice president of Brown's Republican Party association, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, originally from Uzbekistan, who had hoped to become a neurosurgeon.

From Barron's • Dec. 19, 2025

Umurzokov’s friends described him as a witty and kind student with dreams of becoming a neurosurgeon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

Meghan Murphy, M.D., a neurosurgeon at the Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato, reviews eight common beliefs and explains what research and clinical experience actually show.

From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2025

She graduated from Pine Manor Junior College in Wellesley, Mass., and attended one year of college at Columbia University before dropping out to get married to neurosurgeon Seth Weingarten.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2025

As this was happening, I was arriving at the Combined Military Hospital in Peshawar, where a neurosurgeon named Colonel Junaid examined me and discovered something surprising: The bullet was still inside me.

From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai