Definition of Nerve compression

1. Noun. Harmful pressure on a nerve (especially in nerves that pass over rigid prominences); causes nerve damage and muscle weakness.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Nerve Compression

nerve-shredding
nerve-wracking
nerve agent
nerve agents
nerve avulsion
nerve biopsy
nerve block
nerve block anaesthesia
nerve block anesthesia
nerve cell
nerve cell body
nerve cells
nerve center
nerve centers
nerve centre
nerve compression (current term)
nerve compression syndromes
nerve conduction
nerve conduction velocity
nerve cord
nerve deafness
nerve decompression
nerve degeneration
nerve end
nerve ending
nerve endings
nerve entrapment
nerve fascicle
nerve fiber
nerve fibers

Literary usage of Nerve compression

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1891)
"LFB NERVE-COMPRESSION DUE TO CALLUS. In the "Gazette Hebdomadaire de Medecine et de Chirurgie," March 14, 1891, there is an exhaustive paper on this subject ..."

2. Practical Massage in Twenty Lessons by Hartvig Nissen (1905)
"nerve compression.—Grasping the limb with both hands, a firm pressure is made around and down ... nerve compression. grasp simultaneously near the shoulder, ..."

3. Practical Massage and Corrective Exercises by Hartvig Nissen (1916)
"nerve compression.—Grasping the limb with both hands, a firm pressure is made ... nerve compression. Both hands grasp simultaneously near the shoulder, ..."

4. Block anesthesia and allied subjects: With Special Chapters on the Maxillary by Arthur Ervin Smith (1920)
"nerve compression AND ANEMIA Anesthesia produced through the method of nerve compression and anemia is of little importance to the oral and dental surgeon ..."

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