A surgical procedure removing part of the sympathetic nervous system around arteries to improve blood flow and reduce pain.
Compound: 'arteria' (artery) + 'sympathetic' (part of nervous system) + '-ectomy' (surgical removal). This complex medical term describes a specific 20th-century surgical technique combining vascular and nervous system treatment.
This surgery was developed to treat severe circulatory pain conditions before we understood the underlying causes, and it's a fascinating example of how doctors used to operate on the nervous system to trick it into increasing blood flow to painful limbs.
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