neurectomy
- noun
- /nʊˈrɛk.tə.mi/
- Specialized
:
neurectomía
- The doctor explained that a neurectomy could help alleviate the patient's chronic pain by removing part of the affected nerve.
- vestibular neurectomy
- posterior neurectomy
- singular neurectomy
Examples
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If the vertigo attacks continue, the physician can perform either a posterior fossa vestibular neurectomy or a labyrinthectomy, depending on the level of hearing.
Academic text (1999) -
Retrosigmoid vestibular neurectomy was performed on all patients, and a 2- to 3-mm segment of the vestibular nerve was removed from the cerebellopontine angle.
Academic text (2002) -
The risk of serious neurologic complications is lower in patients who undergo vestibular neurectomy than in those who undergo removal of an acoustic neuroma.
Academic text (2004) -
Singular neurectomy or posterior semicircular canal occlusion was recommended to patients who had disabling symptoms lasting longer than 12 months.
Academic text (1995) -
Surgery is reserved for patients who still do not respond; surgical procedures include endolymphatic sac decompression, vestibular neurectomy, or labyrinthectomy.
Academic text (2002) -
The 20 patients with recurrence required additional gentamicin injections, plus vestibular neurectomy in 2 of them and transmastoid labyrinthectomy for persistent vertigo attacks in 1.
Academic text (2008) -
A few years ago, we were performing an average of 12 vestibular neurectomies per year, but during the five years since we started using intratympanic gentamicin for intractable vertigo of Meniere's disease, we have performed only two.
Academic text (2008) -
The success of posterior approaches to both vestibular neurectomy and hearing-preservation acoustic neuroma surgery has decreased the frequency with which middle fossa procedures are performed for these indications.
Academic text (2004) -
To these ends, we obtained vestibular nerve segments from five patients during retrosigmoid (posterior fossa) neurectomy, immediately fixed them, and processed them for light and electron microscopy.
Academic text (2002) -
For example, one of our patients with prolonged (dynamic) positional nystagmus was cured by singular neurectomy, implying a peripheral vestibular disorder.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
The removal of a nerve by surgery
Loss of nerve connection to a part of the body that reduces feeling or movement
How Destructive
- Specialized
2
8.3
- Specialized
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
neurectomy = neur + ectomy
This is a learned medical formation built from classical combining forms, and an average B1 learner is unlikely to infer the meaning of 'nerve removal' from the parts alone.
Etymology
The word neurectomy comes from Greek parts neur- meaning 'nerve' and -ectomy meaning 'cutting out' or 'removal'. So, like an appendectomy (removal of the appendix), a neurectomy is a surgery that removes a nerve to help reduce pain.