sympathectomy

IPA: sɪmpʌθˈɛktʌmi

(neurosurgery) The surgical cutting of a nerve in the sympathetic nervous system.

Examples of "sympathectomy" in Sentences

She then had a chemical sympathectomy to destroy part of the lumbar ganglion.
The surgery, called sympathectomy, may reduce the frequency and duration of attacks.
Patients observed after bypass graft or lumbar sympathectomy Faulkner KW, et al. Med J Aust.
In severe cases, a minimally-invasive surgical procedure called sympathectomy may be recommended.
But the wrist and arm did not -- until 1990, shortly before she was scheduled to have a sympathectomy.
The sympathetic nerves, which supply the sweat glands, can also be interrupted surgically - a method called sympathectomy.
And in some very serious cases, the accepted treatment is a sympathectomy, an irreversible procedure that surgically or chemically destroys a portion of the nerve-carrying ganglion.
An operation called a bilateral lumbodorsal sympathectomy, in which all the sympathetic nerves to the legs were cut, was effective in about 10 percent of patients, but caused unpleasant and debilitating complications in many of the remainder.