Jon Weingart, MD, discusses whether having a brain tumor means a patient needs surgery. Dr Weingart is a neurosurgeon and professor of Neurological Surgery and Oncology at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Surgery is one type of treatment for brain tumors.
Noun. 1. doctrine-a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school. ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought.
The Latin root sect means âcut.â This Latin root is the word origin of a good number of English vocabulary words, including insect, dissect, and intersect. The root sect is easily recalled via the word section, for a section is a âcutâ-off piece of a larger whole.