annulotomy

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noun

An incision between intervertebral discs to allow decompression

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Meanings

nounannulotomy (plural annulotomies)

plural annulotomies

  1. medicineAn incision between intervertebral discs to allow decompression

    An annulotomy was created and subtotal discectomy was performed.

    2015 August 19, Chaoliang Lv et al., “Comparative effectiveness of two different interbody fusion methods for transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion: cage versus morselized impacted bone grafts”, in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, volume 16, →DOI

Origin

From annulus + -otomy.

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