Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable, usually)Surgery on the brain or, loosely, any part of the nervous system.

    Gehirnchirurgie

    нейрохирурги́яnejroxirurgíja

  2. (excessive, idiomatic, uncountable, usually)Anything overly complex, detailed, or confusing.

    It's not brain surgery. Just screw in the bulb and flip the switch.

More definitions
  • any surgical procedure involving the brain

Examples

10 sentences
  1. It's not brain surgery, you know.

    ruЭто же не бином Ньютона.

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  2. It isn't brain surgery, you know.

    ruЭто же не бином Ньютона.

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  3. Are you talking about brain surgery?

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  4. Tom had to have brain surgery.

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  5. It isn't brain surgery.

    ruЭто не бином Ньютона.

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
surgery:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
surgery:

Forms

plural: brain surgeries
Singularbrain surgery
Pluralbrain surgeries

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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