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- noun Plural form of
laminectomy .
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Examples
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I have two steel hips and a spine that has suffered no less than six laminectomies from war injury.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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More than 333,000 of the simpler decompression operations - laminectomies and diskectomies that cut away part of a bone or disk to relieve nerve pressure
Fore, right! 2010
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More than 333,000 of the simpler decompression operations - laminectomies and diskectomies that cut away part of a bone or disk to relieve nerve pressure
ajc.com - News 2010
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More than 333,000 of the simpler decompression operations -- laminectomies and diskectomies that cut away part of a bone or disk to relieve nerve pressure
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More than 333,000 of the simpler decompression operations - laminectomies and diskectomies that cut away part of a bone or disk to relieve nerve pressure - were performed in 2007, the latest data compiled by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
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Procedures such as total knee replacements and laminectomies can be done on an outpatient basis for some patients.
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In 2008 in the US, more than two million people age 65 and older were diagnosed with spinal stenosis and more than 145,000 laminectomies were performed as treatment options.
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Some laminectomies are carried out as emergencies, perhaps for a problem causing rapid paralysis of the legs or arms.
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