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Term:
Parent Terms Term With Siblings Child Terms
axotomy +     
saphenous nerve axotomy  
sciatic nerve axotomy  
Surgical transection or severing of one or more axons of the sciatic nerve, the large sensory and motor nerve that in humans arises from the sacral plexus and passes through the greater sciatic foramen to midthigh where it divides into the common peroneal and tibial nerves.

Synonyms
Xrefs: MA:0001172 ;   MESH:D019771
Definition Sources: American_Heritage:The_American_Heritage_Medical_Dictionary_2007, Dorland:Dorlands_Illustrated_Medical_Dictionary--31st_Ed, ISBN:978-1416049982

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