It involves severing fibres of a person's sympathetic nervous system, part of the involuntary, or "autonomic," nervous system, which controls breathing, heart rate, digestion, sweating, and, among the many other basic functions of life, blushing.
The modern version of the procedure, first performed in 1935 and no longer practiced, involves severing neural connections in the brain's frontal cortex; it is not "the removal of the prefrontal lobes of the brain's cortex".
The technique, developed in the laboratory led by Dr. Mircea Steriade at Laval University in Quebec, involves severing the nerve cells around a section of tissue about the size of the tab button on a computer keyboard from the brains of anesthetized cats.
This op, for the surgeon, involves severing the carotid, one of the "quite important" links in the neck between the body and the brain, and then somehow, festooned in a fair spray of arterial blood, cleaning out the smoke-gunge from the carotid and shovelling the carotid back in.
As an explant culture of the retina necessarily involves severing the optic nerve, the ganglion cells will eventually undergo retrograde degeneration.
Laceration consists in a deep cut across the muscle [ 87] which causes a delay in the healing process, while the denervation model involves severing the sciatic nerve, thus causing atrophy of the denervated myofibers [ 88].
Boys from the little acting group were happy to show us a puppet play about two butterflies made by the children from their class, and we were equally thrilled with their performance, particularly because it involved sever-year old children.
Mr Woodley, who founded BMI Regional's predecessor Business Air in 1987 before selling it to BMI in 1996, said the process had involved severing all connections and then negotiating new contracts.
The procedure would involve severing the heads of two human patients simultaneously using an "ultra-sharp blade", cooling and flushing out the "recipient" head before attaching its new body with an advanced polymer "glue".
As whole muscle grafting involves severing of the vascular connections of the grafted muscles to induce ischemia, one possible explanation for the observed delay in muscle fibre necrosis and regeneration in osteopontin-null muscles could be a delay in revascularisation of the muscle in the absence of osteopontin.
This imaginative, so-ugly-it's-beautiful production, at St . Anns Warehouse in Brooklyn through Dec. 12, is more likely to inspire nightmares involving severed body parts, public humiliation and concentration camps.
