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neurosurgeon

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

noun

neurosurgeons plural
  1. a physician who specializes in neurosurgery.


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Dr. Tom L. Yao, a neurosurgeon from Tennessee, and his wife, lawyer Emily Yao, moved to Louisville in 2010, when Tom was hired by Norton Neuroscience Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

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

Dr. Brett Youngerman, assistant professor of neurological surgery at Columbia University and neurosurgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, served as the project's main clinical collaborator.

From Science Daily • Dec. 9, 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

He reminded me that as a practicing psychiatrist and neurosurgeon he had very little time for languages.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

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