In rare cases, surgery may be done to destroy a nerve or nerves that are part of the pain pathway.

It destroys nerves to the hands and feet so that the victim no longer senses pain, no longer flinches from injury, leaving his limbs vulnerable to burns and trauma and infection.

You might destroy nerves and tissue and bone and fat, but puncture this organ, interfere with the working of this most primordial piece of man, and all life will cease.

In animal studies, very high doses have destroyed serotonin-pathway nerves, which convey pleasure and affect memory and appetite.

A: Cancer pain often stems from growing tumors and injured tissue, so an effective block for it may be a neurolytic procedure, meaning a treatment to destroy nerves.

Its current, sophisticated form involves freezing and destroying nerves with a needlelike instrument called a cryoprobe.

Other chemicals, such as solutions of alcohol or phenol, also destroy nerves.

Laser ablation has biological applications and can be used to destroy nerves and other tissues.

Or injections of alcohol or phenol may be used to destroy overactive nerves in large muscle groups.

The inherited, incurable disease, retinitis pigmentosa, destroys nerves in the retina.