| absurd | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
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| (adjective) inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense | - |
| (noun) a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless | Synonyms: the absurd |
| absurdity | (noun) a ludicrous folly | Synonyms: fatuity, fatuousness, silliness |
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| (noun) a message whose content is at variance with reason | Synonyms: absurdness, ridiculousness |
| absurdly | (adverb) in an absurd manner or to an absurd degree | - |
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| absurdness | (noun) a message whose content is at variance with reason | Synonyms: absurdity, ridiculousness |
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| acupressure | (noun) treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body | Synonyms: G-Jo, shiatsu |
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| admeasure | (verb) determine the quantity of someone's share | - |
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| assurance | (noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: authority, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
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| (noun) a statement intended to inspire confidence | - |
| (noun) a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something | Synonyms: pledge |
| (noun) a British term for some kinds of insurance | - |
| assure | (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, check, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
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| (verb) inform positively and with certainty and confidence | Synonyms: tell |
| (verb) assure somebody of the truth of something with the intention of giving the listener confidence | - |
| (verb) make a promise or commitment | Synonyms: promise |
| (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: ensure, guarantee, insure, secure |
| assured | (adjective) marked by assurance; exhibiting confidence | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by certainty or security | - |
| assuredly | (adverb) without a doubt | - |
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| assuredness | (noun) great coolness and composure under strain | Synonyms: aplomb, cool, poise, sang-froid |
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| assurgent | (adjective) growing or extending upward | - |
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| (adjective) rising from the sea | - |
| assuring | (adjective) giving confidence | - |
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| caesura | (noun) a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line | - |
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| (noun) a pause or interruption (as in a conversation) | - |
| caesural | (adjective) of or relating to a caesura | - |
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| censurable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameful, blameworthy, culpable |
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| censure | (noun) harsh criticism or disapproval | Synonyms: animadversion |
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| (noun) the state of being excommunicated | Synonyms: exclusion, excommunication |
| (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: criminate, reprimand |
| chemosurgery | (noun) use of chemical to destroy diseased or malignant tissue; used in treatment of skin cancer | - |
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| closure | (noun) termination of operations | Synonyms: closedown, closing, shutdown |
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| (noun) the act of blocking | Synonyms: blockage, occlusion |
| (noun) approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap | Synonyms: closing |
| (noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: block, blockage, occlusion, stop, stoppage |
| (noun) a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric | Synonyms: law of closure |
| (noun) something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making | Synonyms: resolution, settlement |
| (noun) a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body | Synonyms: cloture, gag law, gag rule |
| (verb) terminate debate by calling for a vote | Synonyms: cloture |
| cocksure | (adjective) marked by excessive confidence | Synonyms: overconfident, positive |
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| cocksureness | (noun) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | Synonyms: certitude, overconfidence |
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| coinsurance | (noun) insurance issued jointly by two or more underwriters | - |
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| coinsure | (verb) take out coinsurance | - |
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| commensurable | (adjective) capable of being measured by a common standard | - |
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| commensurate | (adjective) corresponding in size or degree or extent | - |
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| commensurateness | (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: correspondence, proportionateness |
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| commissure | (noun) a bundle of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the brain or spinal cord | - |
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| composure | (noun) steadiness of mind under stress | Synonyms: calm, calmness, equanimity |
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| counterinsurgency | (noun) actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | Synonyms: pacification |
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| counterinsurgent | (adjective) of or relating or characteristic of actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | - |
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| countermeasure | (noun) an action taken to offset another action | - |
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| cryosurgery | (noun) the use of extreme cold (usually liquid nitrogen) to destroy unwanted tissue (warts or cataracts or skin cancers) | - |
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| cynosure | (noun) something that strongly attracts attention and admiration | - |
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| (noun) something that provides guidance (as Polaris guides mariners) | - |
| depressurise | (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: decompress, depressurize |
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| depressurize | (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: decompress, depressurise |
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| disclosure | (noun) the speech act of making something evident | Synonyms: revealing, revelation |
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| discomposure | (noun) a temperament that is perturbed and lacking in composure | - |
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| (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomfiture, disconcertion, disconcertment |
| displeasure | (noun) the feeling of being displeased or annoyed or dissatisfied with someone or something | - |
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| dysuria | (noun) painful or difficult urination | - |
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| electrosurgery | (noun) surgery performed with electrical devices (as in electrocautery) | - |
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| embrasure | (noun) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through | Synonyms: port, porthole |
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| enclosure | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosing, envelopment, inclosure |
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| (noun) a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose | - |
| (noun) something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter | Synonyms: inclosure |
| (noun) a naturally enclosed space | Synonyms: natural enclosure |
| ensure | (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, check, control, insure, see, see to it |
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| (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: assure, guarantee, insure, secure |
| erasure | (noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing | Synonyms: expunction, expunging |
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| (noun) a correction made by erasing | - |
| (noun) a surface area where something has been erased | - |
| esurience | (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: edacity, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity |
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| (noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: edacity, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity |
| esurient | (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, devouring, greedy |
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| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
| (adjective) extremely hungry | Synonyms: famished, ravenous, sharp-set, starved |
| exposure | (noun) abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving an infant out in the open) | - |
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| (noun) the act of exposing film to light | - |
| (noun) presentation to view in an open or public manner | - |
| (noun) the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience | - |
| (noun) a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format | Synonyms: photo, photograph, pic, picture |
| (noun) vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain | - |
| (noun) aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces | - |
| (noun) the disclosure of something secret | - |
| (noun) the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate | - |
| (noun) the state of being vulnerable or exposed | Synonyms: vulnerability |
| fissure | (noun) (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes | - |
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| (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, crevice, scissure |
| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, crack, cranny, crevice |
| (verb) break into fissures or fine cracks | - |
| footsure | (adjective) not liable to stumble or fall | Synonyms: sure-footed, surefooted |
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| foreclosure | (noun) the legal proceedings initiated by a creditor to repossess the collateral for loan that is in default | - |
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| fructosuria | (noun) the presence of levulose is the urine | - |
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| glucosuria | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of glucose in the urine | - |
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| glycosuria | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of sugar in the urine | - |
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| immeasurability | (noun) the quality of being immeasurable. | - |
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| immeasurable | (adjective) impossible to measure | Synonyms: immensurable, unmeasurable |
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| (adjective) beyond calculation or measure | Synonyms: incomputable, inestimable |
| immeasurably | (adverb) to an immeasurable degree; beyond measurement | - |
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| (adverb) without bounds | Synonyms: boundlessly, infinitely |
| immensurable | (adjective) impossible to measure | Synonyms: immeasurable, unmeasurable |
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| incisura | (noun) (anatomy) a notch or small hollow | Synonyms: incisure |
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| incisure | (noun) (anatomy) a notch or small hollow | Synonyms: incisura |
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| inclosure | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosing, enclosure, envelopment |
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| (noun) something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter | Synonyms: enclosure |
| incommensurable | (adjective) not having a common factor | - |
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| (adjective) impossible to measure or compare in value or size or excellence | - |
| incommensurate | (adjective) not corresponding in size or degree or extent | - |
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| insurability | (noun) the quality of being insurable; the conditions under which an insurance company will issue insurance to an applicant (based on standards set by the insurance company) | - |
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| insurable | (adjective) capable of being insured or eligible to be insured | - |
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| insurance | (noun) written contract or certificate of insurance | Synonyms: insurance policy, policy |
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| (noun) promise of reimbursement in the case of loss; paid to people or companies so concerned about hazards that they have made prepayments to an insurance company | - |
| (noun) protection against future loss | Synonyms: indemnity |
| insure | (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, check, control, ensure, see, see to it |
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| (verb) protect by insurance | Synonyms: cover, underwrite |
| (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: assure, ensure, guarantee, secure |
| (verb) take out insurance for | - |
| insured | (adjective) covered by insurance | - |
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| (noun) a person whose interests are protected by an insurance policy; a person who contracts for an insurance policy that indemnifies him against loss of property or life or health etc. | Synonyms: insured person |
| insurer | (noun) a financial institution that sells insurance | Synonyms: insurance company, insurance firm, insurance underwriter, underwriter |
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| insurgence | (noun) an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict | Synonyms: insurgency |
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| insurgency | (noun) an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict | Synonyms: insurgence |
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| insurgent | (adjective) in opposition to a civil authority or government | Synonyms: seditious, subversive |
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| (noun) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) | Synonyms: freedom fighter, insurrectionist, rebel |
| (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerilla, guerrilla, irregular |
| insurmountable | (adjective) not capable of being surmounted or overcome | Synonyms: unsurmountable |
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| (adjective) impossible to surmount | Synonyms: insuperable |
| insurrection | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: rebellion, revolt, rising, uprising |
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| insurrectional | (adjective) of or relating to or given to insurrection | Synonyms: insurrectionary |
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| insurrectionary | (adjective) of or relating to or given to insurrection | Synonyms: insurrectional |
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| insurrectionism | (noun) the principle of revolt against constituted authority | - |
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| insurrectionist | (noun) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) | Synonyms: freedom fighter, insurgent, rebel |
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| lactosuria | (noun) presence of lactose in the urine; can occur during pregnancy or lactation | - |
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| leisure | (noun) freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity | - |
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| (noun) time available for ease and relaxation | Synonyms: leisure time |
| leisured | (adjective) free from duties or responsibilities | - |
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| leisureliness | (noun) slowness by virtue of being leisurely | - |
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| leisurely | (adjective) not hurried or forced | Synonyms: easy, easygoing |
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| (adverb) in an unhurried way or at one's convenience | Synonyms: at leisure |
| measurability | (noun) the quality of being measurable | Synonyms: quantifiability |
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| measurable | (adjective) capable of being measured | Synonyms: mensurable |
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| (adjective) of distinguished importance | - |
| measurably | (adverb) to a measurable degree | - |
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| measure | (noun) how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Synonyms: amount, quantity |
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| (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measurement, measuring, mensuration |
| (noun) any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal | Synonyms: step |
| (noun) measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements | Synonyms: measuring rod, measuring stick |
| (noun) a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance | - |
| (noun) musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats | Synonyms: bar |
| (noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: beat, cadence, meter, metre |
| (noun) a statute in draft before it becomes law | Synonyms: bill |
| (noun) a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated | Synonyms: criterion, standard, touchstone |
| (verb) express as a number or measure or quantity | Synonyms: quantify |
| (verb) determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of | Synonyms: measure out, mensurate |
| (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, evaluate, valuate, value |
| (verb) have certain dimensions | - |
| measured | (adjective) having notes of fixed rhythmic value | Synonyms: mensurable, mensural |
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| (adjective) carefully thought out in advance | Synonyms: calculated, deliberate |
| (adjective) the rhythmic arrangement of syllables | Synonyms: metric, metrical |
| (adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity | Synonyms: careful, deliberate |
| measuredly | (adverb) in a deliberate unhurried manner | Synonyms: deliberately |
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| measureless | (adjective) without limits in extent or size or quantity | Synonyms: illimitable, limitless, unmeasured |
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| measurement | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measuring, mensuration |
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| measurer | (noun) a person who makes measurements | - |
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| measuring | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measurement, mensuration |
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| mensurable | (adjective) capable of being measured | Synonyms: measurable |
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| (adjective) having notes of fixed rhythmic value | Synonyms: measured, mensural |
| mensural | (adjective) having notes of fixed rhythmic value | Synonyms: measured, mensurable |
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| (adjective) of or relating to measure | - |
| mensurate | (verb) determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of | Synonyms: measure, measure out |
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| mensuration | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measurement, measuring |
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| microsurgery | (noun) surgery using operating microscopes and miniaturized precision instruments to perform intricate procedures on very small structures | - |
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| neurosurgeon | (noun) someone who does surgery on the nervous system (especially the brain) | Synonyms: brain surgeon |
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| neurosurgery | (noun) any surgery that involves the nervous system (brain or spinal cord or peripheral nerves) | - |
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| nonsurgical | (adjective) not surgical | - |
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