See Also: convulsants(medicine)

neurotomy (iou) and convulsants (medicine)


neurotomy (iou)



neurotomy noun. E18.
[from NEURO- + -TOMY.]
Medicine.
Neuroanatomy. Only in Dicts. E-M18.
The (partial or total) surgical severing of a nerve, to produce sensory loss and relief of pain, or to suppress involuntary movements; an instance of this. M19.

convulsants (medicine)


convulsants
Substances that act in the brainstem or spinal cord to produce tonic or clonic convulsions, often by removing normal inhibitory tone. They were formerly used to stimulate respiration or as antidotes to barbiturate overdose. They are now most commonly used as experimental tools.