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sympathectomy Surg.|sɪmpəˈθɛktəmɪ| Also sympathetectomy. [f. sympathetic + Gr. ἐκτοµή excision.] Excision of a sympathetic ganglion or other part of the sympathetic nerve.
1900The Physician & Surg. I. No. 7. 314 European Oculists and Surgeons have performed sympathectomy for glaucoma and exophthalmic goiter. 1903Med. Record LXIII. 875/2 So far as the question of choice of operation between hemisection and sympathectomy went, he believed that the Jennesco operation gave better results. 1936Q. Jrnl. Med. XXIX. 438 Of all the ‘sympathectomies’ which have been proposed and tried, ‘ganglionectomy’ is the only one really worth doing. 1955Sci. News Let. 22 Oct. 262/1 The nerve⁓cutting operation, called sympathectomy, is to dilate arteries that have been stopped. 1968G. Maxwell Raven seek thy Brother ii. 29 There was no alternative, he said, to lumbar sympathectomy. 1979Molecular Pharmacol. XV. 35 Microsomal preparations derived from several peripheral organs of cats or rabbits following chemical sympathectomy. Hence sympaˈthectomized a., that has undergone sympathectomy.
1928Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. LXXXV. 493 Table 3 shows the changes produced in the relative mononuclear count in sympathectomized animals. 1970H. C. Shands Semiotic Approaches to Psychiatry xxiii. 396 He [sc. the schizophrenic] thrives (relatively speaking) when, like Cannon's sympathectomized cats, he is never exposed to normally expectable variation. |