Definition of "denervation" [denervation]

• The removal or blocking of a nerve connection to tissue, such as by surgical or chemical means (noun)

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• "Laparoscopic renal denervation and nephropexy for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease related pain in adolescents."
• "Another technique, known as facet joint denervation involves inactivating nerves in the joints that enable the spine to bend and twist, such as in the neck, by passing radio waves via needles inserted through the skin to heat the tissue at the tip of a joint."
• "In writing the 1955 review on the "Pharmacology of vascular smooth muscle," I had become very interested in the mechanisms by which sympathetic postganglionic denervation and certain drugs like cocaine markedly potentiate the response of effector organs to epinephrine and norepinephrine, yet markedly reduce the response to the sympathomimetic tyramine."