Term: rhizotomy: surgical procedure in which spinal nerve roots are cut; done (anterior roots) to relieve intractable pain or (posterior roots) to stop severe muscle spasms
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: lake trout: flesh of large trout of northern lakes
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: mobile: sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: liberal: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: miami: a member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: saponification: a chemical reaction in which an ester is heated with an alkali (especially the alkaline hydrolysis of a fat or oil to make soap)
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: computer architecture: (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: hydrogen cyanide: a highly poisonous gas or volatile liquid that smells like bitter almonds; becomes a gas at around 90 degree Fahrenheit and is most dangerous when inhaled; the anhydride of hydrocyanic acid; used in manufacturing
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: cottonwood: any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: didelphidae: opossums
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: indian plantain: any of various plants of the genus Cacalia having leaves resembling those of plantain