deafferentation in a sentence

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1. 45 . * Marbach, J . J ., Varoscak, J . R ., and Cloidt, J . C ., The Diagnosis and Treatment of Three Chronic Facial Pain Disorders : Deafferentation Neuralgia, Degenerative Joint Disease of the Temporomandibular Joint, and Myofascial Syndrome.
2. An " afferent nerve " is a sensory nerve that conveys impulses from the skin and other sensory organs to the spine and the brain . " Deafferentation " is a surgical procedure in which the spinal cord is opened up and the sensory nerves cut so that these impulses do not reach the brain.