Complex sentence: Although the literal meaning of laminectomy is "excision of the lamina", conventional laminectomy, which is the standard spine procedure in neurosurgery and orthopedics, involves excision of the posterior spinal ligament and some or all of the spinous process.
Split into simpler sentences: Although the literal meaning of laminectomy is'excision of the lamina', conventional laminectomy, which is the standard spine procedure in neurosurgery and orthopedics. It involves excision of the posterior spinal ligament and some or all of the spinous process.