How to Use neurosurgery in a Sentence

neurosurgery

noun
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  • Rolle was the first to enter the room, with his other neurosurgery colleagues close behind.
    — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 18 May 2022
  • Dove is going into Day 4 post neurosurgery with both eyes open.
    — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 4 Sep. 2020
  • While the surgery was intense a any neurosurgery is a according to his father Steve, Sam was set to be discharged within a week.
    — Hayden Grove, cleveland.com, 5 Nov. 2017
  • Her end goal is to make neurosurgery less invasive and have a higher success rate.
    — Brayden Garcia, Dallas News, 30 May 2021
  • Or what Carson's achievement meant to the advancement of neurosurgery.
    — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Dove, born in February, will have neurosurgery to treat the condition later this month.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 6 July 2020
  • Liu, 51, was a leading figure in neurosurgery, the newspaper said.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Mayo does brisk business in high-end care, including cardiac surgery and neurosurgery.
    — Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2020
  • But neither of those advances required anyone to get neurosurgery to be in the first aftermarket test group.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 4 Sep. 2020
  • In Canada the median wait for neurosurgery after seeing a doctor is about eight months.
    — Scott W. Atlas, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2018
  • He was still sedated in the ICU and being treated by neurosurgery and trauma teams, officials said.
    — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Three epilepsy patients who were about to have neurosurgery for their condition all had a tiny patch of electrodes placed directly on the brain for a week to map the origins of their seizures, the researchers state in their study.
    — Fox News, 31 July 2019
  • The stewards’ minutes on this incident were as complete as my knowledge of neurosurgery.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Theodore is active in the area of preventative medicine within neurosurgery.
    — The Baltimore Sun, baltimoresun.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Delashaw, who had been chair of neurosurgery at the Swedish Neuroscience Institute, also stepped down.
    — Joseph O’Sullivan, The Seattle Times, 12 June 2017
  • To be named director of pediatric neurosurgery at John Hopkins Hospital at age 33, at the time the youngest physician in the country to hold such a position.
    — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Focused ultrasound is a form of functional neurosurgery, the targeting of precise structures deep in the brain to change it, to restore function or, in this case, to stop a tumor.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Doctors at the first hospital determined that the boy needed a neurosurgery follow-up within four weeks.
    — Nomaan Merchant, Houston Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2020
  • Then, one day, her mother alerted her to a LinkedIn post from the University of Pittsburgh's neurosurgery department.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Researchers have made a rare discovery - a medieval woman who died while pregnant who also had early form of neurosurgery, as well as, a coffin birth.
    — Natalie Dreier, ajc, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Carson, 69, is a renowned brain surgeon who spent nearly three decades as the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
    — William Cummings, USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Right now, big academic centers, big neurosurgery, neuroscience centers are able to get micro catheters into the brain.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The surgery lasted more than 12 hours and specialists in neurosurgery, plastic surgery, pediatric intensive care and brain imaging were flown into the country.
    — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Kaske said the study was motivated by a teenage patient under 18 who was shot in the head and suffered a skull fracture with bone fragments protruding into the brain, forcing urgent neurosurgery.
    — Susan Du, Star Tribune, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Luo was found unconscious on the spot, taken to a hospital emergency room, and then later transferred to the neurosurgery high-dependency unit.
    — Jasmine Leung, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2019
  • The findings could spell new hope for millions around the world who have lost the use of their upper limbs or their ability to speak due to illness or injury, said Jaimie Henderson, professor of neurosurgery at Stanford, in a statement.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 13 May 2021
  • That might have been the end for most pets, but Oscar’s luck changed when he was taken into the care of Noel Fitzpatrick, a veterinarian who specialized in orthopedics and neurosurgery.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Those include skull base surgery, which is a procedure to remove a tumor from the base of the skull; and vascular neurosurgery, which involves the treatment of aneurysms and other conditions involving blood vessels.
    — cleveland, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Tamia Potter is the first Black woman to accept a spot in the neurosurgery position at the university’s medical center in Nashville, Tennessee.
    — Jalen Brown, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Turner, who was a sophomore at Central Senior High School, underwent emergency neurosurgery with a life-threatening injury.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2024

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