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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

resección nerviosa

Pronunciation / Transliteration: reseksión nerˈbjosa

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Nerve-resection/nɜːv rɪˈsɛk.ʃən/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45000 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El cirujano indicó una resección nerviosa para tratar la neuralgia."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The surgical excision or removal of all or a portion of a nerve, typically performed to relieve chronic pain or treat specific neurological conditions.

    "The neurosurgeon performed a nerve-resection to alleviate the patient's intractable neuralgia."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'nerve', derived from the Latin 'nervus' (meaning sinew, tendon, or nerve) via Old French, and 'resection', stemming from the Latin 'resectio' (a cutting off or pruning), from 'resecare'. First appearing in late 19th-century medical literature, it describes the surgical removal of all or part of a nerve.

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