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What is the medical term meaning surgical removal of a spinal lamina?
Laminectomy is the surgical removal of a spinal lamina. Visualize...close your fist and allow your thumb and pinky to extend. The fist is your vertebra and the finger/thumb are your lamina. The procedure is called a laminectomy.Vertebral laminectomy
What is the medical term meaning surgical repair of the lamina of the disc?
Laminoplasty is the medical term meaning surgical repair of the lamina of the disc. A related term, laminectomy, means surgical removal of the lamina.
What is laminectomies?
Surgical removal of the posterior arch of a vertebra.
What is the medical term meaning surgical removal of the posterior arch of a vertebra?
The medical term for the surgical removal of the posterior arch of a vertebra is laminectomy. This procedure is commonly done to relieve pressure on the spinal cord or nerves caused by conditions such as spinal stenosis or herniated discs.
What is Left L5 Hemilaminotomy?
laminotomy (lam-i-not-m)Excision of a portion of a vertebral lamina in which the intervertebral foramen is enlarged by removal of a portion of the lamina. Syn: rachiotomy[L. lamina, layer, + G. tom, incision hemi-One-half. Cf. semi- http://www.stedmans.com/section.cfm/45
What is the surgical removal of an aneurysm is an?
Aneurysmectomy is surgical removal of an aneurysm.
What is the term meaning surgical removal of a muscle?
Myectomy is surgical removal of a muscle.
Is a mastectomy a surgical removal of only the cancerous tissue?
Mastectomy is surgical removal of the whole breast. Lumpectomy is surgical removal of only the cancerous tissue.
What is the medical term meaning surgical removal of a cataract clouded lens?
the surgical removal of a cataract-clouded lens
Is the surgical removal of an entire breast and its nipple?
The surgical removal of the breast is called a mastectomy.
What is the meaning of surgical removal of the colon and rectum?
Proctocolectomy is surgical removal of the colon and rectum.
What is the name of the surgical removal of a blood vessel?
Angiectomy is the removal of all or part of a blood vessel. Arteriectomy (ar-teh-ree-ECK-toh-mee) is the surgical removal of part of an artery. (artieri means artery and -ectomy means surgical removal). Phlebectomy is the surgical removal of veins.venectomy
