Meaning of "chordotomy" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF CHORDOTOMY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHORDOTOMY

Chordotomy is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CHORDOTOMY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cordotomy

Cordotomy is a surgical procedure that disables selected pain-conducting tracts in the spinal cord, in order to achieve loss of pain and temperature perception. This procedure is commonly performed on patients experiencing severe pain due to cancer or other diseases for which there is currently no cure. Anterolateral cordotomy is effective for relieving unilateral, somatic pain while bilateral cordotomies may be required for visceral or bilateral pain. Cordotomy is usually done percutaneously with fluoroscopic guidance while the patient is under local anesthesia. Open cordotomy, which requires a laminectomy, is often risky for patients with poor medical conditions, but may be required if percutaneous cordotomy is not feasible or an attempt has failed. Cordotomy is now used exclusively for pain due to cancer where treatment to level 3 of the World Health Organisation pain ladder has proved ineffective. Cordotomy is especially indicated for pain due to asbestos-related cancers such as pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma. Although cordotomy is effective in the relief of pain, the effect is usually temporary. Dysesthesia develops after most cordotomies.

Definition of chordotomy in the English dictionary

The definition of chordotomy in the dictionary is an operation to paralyse nerve tracts in the spinal chord in order to relieve pain associated with certain conditions.

TRANSLATION OF CHORDOTOMY

Find out the translation of chordotomy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of chordotomy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «chordotomy» in English.

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• Translator English - Arabic: بضع الحبل
• Translator English - Russian: chordotomy
• Translator English - Portuguese: cordotomia
• Translator English - Bengali: chordotomy
• Translator English - French: chordotomie
• Translator English - Malay: Kordotomi
• Translator English - German: chordotomy
• Translator English - Japanese: コルドトミー
• Translator English - Korean: chordotomy
• Translator English - Javanese: Chordotomy
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• Translator English - Tamil: விந்துக் குழாய் வெட்டு
• Translator English - Marathi: कॉर्डोटीमि
• Translator English - Turkish: chordotomy
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• Translator English - Polish: chordotomie
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHORDOTOMY»

Discover the use of chordotomy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to chordotomy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Alphabetical index

... Chord A45.2 Chordotomy Spinal Cord Open NEC A47.3 Chordotomy Spinal Cord Percutaneous A45.1 Chordotomy Spinal Cord Stereotactic A45.2 Chordotomy Spinal Tract Open NEC A45.1 Chordotomy Spinal Tract Stereotactic C84.

Neurosurgical Classics II

To quote a letter from John Scarff to Peter Nathan concerning this development: " Stookey (1931)'28' was the first to report successful high cervical unilateral and bilateral chordotomy for excruciating pain due to recurrent carcinoma of the ...

Robert H. Wilkins, Gloria K. Wilkins, 2000

OPCS Classifications of Interventions and Procedures

... Chord A45.2 Chordotomy Spinal Cord Open NEC A47.3 Chordotomy Spinal Cord Percutaneous A45.1 Chordotomy Spinal Cord Stereotactic A45.2 Chordotomy Spinal Tract Open NEC A45.1 Chordotomy Spinal Tract Stereotactic C84.

Health and Social Care Information Centre, 2006

Muscle Pain: Understanding the Mechanisms: Understanding the ...

These uncrossed fibers could explain the recurrence of pain in patients after transection (chordotomy) of the ventrolateral funiculus on the side contralateral to a painful lesion. This intervention is performed mainly as an ultimate therapy in ...

Siegfried Mense, Robert D. Gerwin, 2010

Supportive care of the cancer patient

Chordotomy was first introduced by Frazier in 1920.23 Anterolateral chordotomy is usually a wiser choice for the relief of malignant pain because a malignancy may spread beyond a specific de- nervated area.33 Open chordotomy requires a  ...

Peter H. Wiernik, 1983

Manual of Clinical Oncology Seventh Edition: Original

Unilateral chordotomy isthe most effective neuroablative procedure and is particularly useful for patientswith unilateral cancer pain below the shoulder. Radiofrequency lesionsto spinothalamic tracts of thespinalcord aregenerally placed at the ...

Dennis Casciato, 2012

Manual of Clinical Oncology

Contralateral loss of superficial, deep, and visceral pain is produced in >75% of patients treated with percutaneous chordotomy. The duration of analgesia is limited to only a few months; incapacitating dysesthesia may develop after several ...

Casciato, Mary C. Territo, 2012

Correlative Neurosciences: Clinical Studies: Clinical Studies

Many reports refer to the sensory tract ascending in the spinal cord and terminating in the ipsilateral thalamus; Foerster (1927) showed that unilateral, anterolateral chordotomy could not control severe pain, and French and Peyton ( 1948) ...

Toshihiko Tokizane, J. P. Schade ́, 1966

International Abstract of Surgery

If it is certain that all pain is limited to one side, then contralateral unilateral chordotomy at the second thoracic level will result in relief of pain with minimum incidence of bladder disturbance. However, it has been our experience that in most ...

SAMJ

CHORDOTOMY ('45; C aure 0/ Pain Operation Result Follow-Up 4* Amputation ( elsewhere) Bilateral chordotomy Satisfactory 2 years |9 Removal of fibrolipoma Unilateral chordotomy Transference of pain to opposite side l year (elsewhere) ...