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Trigeminal(medicine)
trigeminal(dictionary)
trigeminal pulse(medicine)
trigeminal rhizotomy(medicine)
trigeminal rhythm(medicine)
trigeminal system(medicine)
trigeminal tractotomy(medicine)

trigeminal rhizotomy (medicine) and glucal (medicine)


trigeminal rhizotomy (medicine)


trigeminal rhizotomy
<procedure> Division or section of a sensory root of the fifth cranial nerve, accomplished through a subtemporal (Frazier-Spiller operation), suboccipital (Dandy operation), or transtentorial approach.

Synonym: retrogasserian neurectomy, retrogasserian neurotomy.


glucal (medicine)


glucal -->
glycal


An unsaturated sugar derivative in which the adjacent hydroxyl groups are removed, one of which is that upon the carbon-1 of the aldose (or carbon-2 of the ketose), yielding a CH==CH between these two positions.

Synonym: glucal.