neurectomy
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I may feel that an alternative procedure would be a better option for you—a presacral neurectomy, for example—and I will let you know as much, but at the end of the day it’s your choice.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2018
So far as we have been able to gather from the writings of other practitioners, however, neurectomy returns the animal for a time to usefulness.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
Sooner than risk neurectomy, it seems to us wiser to give a trial to the operation advocated by M.G.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
Its consequences are not so serious as those of neurectomy, and it decongests tissues which neurectomy congests.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
In cases when slight and persistent lameness interferes sufficiently to prevent using an animal at any sort of work on hard roads, median neurectomy will relieve all lameness in most instances.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
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