neurocirurgia
Portuguese, noun
neurocirurgia is spelled N-E-U-R-O-C-I-R-U-R-G-I-A (13 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 45,753rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Neurocirurgia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “neurosurgery (surgery of the nervous system, especially brain)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a tilde, neurocirurgiã is a different word: “female equivalent of neurocirurgião”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “especialidade médica que se dedica ao tratamento cirúrgico de doenças e lesões do sistema nervoso central e…”.
What does neurocirurgia mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineneurosurgery (surgery of the nervous system, especially brain)
noun
- 1
femininefemale equivalent of neurocirurgião
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. especialidade médica que se dedica ao tratamento cirúrgico de doenças e lesões do sistema nervoso central e periférico 2. cirurgia realizada no cérebro
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of neurocirurgia
- neurocirurgias plural
- neurocirurgiãs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to neurocirurgia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is neurocirurgia in Portuguese?
neurocirurgia appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).