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- noun surgery The surgical procedure for selectively disabling pain-conducting
nerve paths in thespinal cord to relieve chronic pain.
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Researchers involved in the study had identified the spinothalamic tract as a likely route for itchiness signals because itches seemed to be eliminated when pain-conducting tracts in the spinal cord were cut in the anterolateral cordotomy procedure which is used to reduce pain.
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