Usually means: Surgical cutting of sympathetic nerves.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. sympathectomy: Merriam-Webster
  2. sympathectomy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sympathectomy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sympathectomy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sympathectomy: Vocabulary.com
  6. sympathectomy: Wordnik
  7. sympathectomy: Wiktionary
  8. sympathectomy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sympathectomy: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. sympathectomy: Dictionary.com
  11. Sympathectomy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. sympathectomy: Rhymezone
  13. sympathectomy: FreeDictionary.org
  14. sympathectomy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. sympathectomy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. sympathectomy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Sympathectomy: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. sympathectomy: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sympathectomy)

noun:  (neurosurgery) The surgical cutting of a nerve in the sympathetic nervous system.

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