An operation in which part of a NERVE is excised: for example, for the relief of NEURALGIA.
n. the surgical removal of the whole or part of a nerve.
a small subdivision of the *vestibular nerve that carries information from the posterior *semicircular canal to the brain. Singular neurectomy is a surgical procedure to divide the singular nerve, occasionally used in the treatment of *benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.... singular nerve
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