Destruction of nerve tissue; freeing of a nerve from inflammatory adhesions.
Letter: n
Cells that transmit nerve impulses (messages) from one part of the body to another.
Pain that results from direct stimulation of the myelin or nervous tissue of the peripheral or central nervous system (except for sensitized C fibers), generally felt as burning or tingling and often occurring in an area of sensory loss. It is seen commonly in patients with uncontrolled diabetes. Clinical examples: peripheral neuropathy, limb amputation, herpetic neuralgia.
A disturbance of function or pathological change in a nerve: in one nerve, mononeuropathy; in several nerves, mononeuropathy multiplex; if diffuse and bilateral, polyneuropathy.
Operative division of a nerve.
Chemicals that help an impulse to cross the synapse or that stop the impulse.
An abnormal decrease in the number of neutrophils circulating in the circulatory system. Note: the suffix -penia means too low.
A phagocytic granulocyte; also referred to as polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN), or our minute man of defense. They are the first white blood cells (WBCs) to the site of infection, inflammation, injury. They engulf, destroy and digest infectious agents. PMNs are sloppy, leaking the digestive enzymes and oxidative burst into the surrounding tissues and injuring the host (person).
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Regenerative new tissue lining the inner most surface (e.g. vessel lining) after stent placement.