单词 | phrenicectomy |
释义 | phrenicectomyn. Surgery. Surgical resection of part of a phrenic nerve, carried out to paralyse the corresponding half of the diaphragm; an instance of this. Cf. phrenicotomy n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > [noun] > operations on nerves neurotomy1704 nerve-cutting1831 neurectomy1857 sympathectomy1900 gangliectomy1901 ganglionectomy1901 vagotomy1906 rhizotomy1910 phrenicotomy1913 cordotomy1923 ramisection1924 ramisectomy1924 phrenicectomy1926 1926 Lancet 14 Aug. 343/2 As a preliminary to thoracoplasty, and in association with artificial pneumothorax, phrenicectomy is gaining adherents. 1943 B. M. Dick in C. F. W. Illingworth Textbk. Surg. Treatm. xxviii. 381 Phrenicectomy is used as an adjuvant to other types of collapse therapy—as an independent measure where artificial pneumothorax has failed owing to adhesions, and as a palliative for hæmoptysis, harassing cough, vomiting, or pain due to diaphragmatic adhesions. 1981 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 678 388/1 Following unilateral phrenicectomy, the denervated rat hemidiaphragm undergoes a transient hypertrophy which appears confined to the small red fibres. 2002 Surg. Endoscopy 16 1109 He underwent thoracoscopic right phrenicectomy [for intractable hiccup], which rendered him symptom free for well over two months. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1926 |
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