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Answer for the clue "Surgical interruption of a nerve pathway in the sympathetic nervous system ", 13 letters:
sympathectomy

Word definitions for sympathectomy in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context neurosurgery English) The surgical cutting of a nerve in the sympathetic nervous system.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A sympathectomy is an irreversible procedure during which at least one sympathetic ganglion is removed. An example is endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy . Category:Neurosurgery

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n. surgical interruption of a nerve pathway in the sympathetic nervous system

Usage examples of sympathectomy.

About a week previously we had done a lumbar sympathectomy, cutting the nerves that were responsible for contracting the walls of the blood vessels of his lower legs.