SYMPATHECTOMY

sympathectomy

(noun) surgical interruption of a nerve pathway in the sympathetic nervous system

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

sympathectomy (plural sympathectomies)

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

Source: Wiktionary



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ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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