单词 | phrenicotomy |
释义 | phrenicotomyn. Surgery. Surgical division of a phrenic nerve, in order to paralyse the corresponding half of the diaphragm; an instance of this. 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 1913 Lancet 20 Sept. 902/1 To undertake, in folk already seriously ill, measures like phrenicotomy and like extensive rib-cutting. 1926 Encycl. Brit. III. 691/1 Phrenicotomy (division of the phrenic nerve in the neck) is said to paralyse the corresponding half of the diaphragm; it is sometimes practised in conjunction with other means of putting one lung at rest. 1947 Amer. Heart Jrnl. 34 889 A left phrenicotomy and a right phrenic crush were done to arrest the episode of diaphragmatic flutter. 1990 Jrnl. Appl. Physiol. 68 870/2 Occluded inspiration after vagotomy and phrenicotomy resulted in the highest..intramuscular pressure values recorded. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1913 |
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