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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.
Specialized synonyms: Nerve Entrapment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nerve Compression
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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