Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Surgical removal of a nerve or part of a nerve.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The operation of excising or cutting out a part of a nerve.

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  • noun surgery The surgical excision of a nerve

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  • noun surgical removal of all or part of a nerve

Etymologies

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neuro- + -ectomy

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Examples

  • Mapping a gene for neuropathic pain-related behavior following peripheral neurectomy in the mouse.

    Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006

  • Mapping a gene for neuropathic pain-related behavior following peripheral neurectomy in the mouse.

    Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006

  • The procedure is called a presacral neurectomy, and it involves the cutting of nerve fibers that lead directly to your uterus and pelvis.

    Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000

  • History of canker of navicular disease of neurectomy

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • -- Lameness had almost disappeared; so much so, that the opinion as to navicular disease was confirmed, and neurectomy was performed.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • -- In addition to the sequelæ we have mentioned, it is urged against the operation of neurectomy that one of the first effects of depriving the foot of the sense of touch is a tendency on the part of the animal to stumble.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • Sooner than risk neurectomy, it seems to us wiser to give a trial to the operation advocated by M.G. Joly, namely, that of ligaturing one of the digital arteries on each affected foot.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • -- On account of the warning they convey to the surgeon, first place among the sequelæ of neurectomy must be given to accidents following loss of sensation.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • 'To command success in neurectomy three considerations demand attention:

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • So far as we have been able to gather from the writings of other practitioners, however, neurectomy returns the animal for a time to usefulness.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

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