Sentences with phrase «destroyed by a needle»

The remaining seven percent of patients underwent PSR — a percutaneous operation in which the nerve fibers causing pain are destroyed by a needle inserted from the cheek all the way into the skull.

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According to a B.C. Ministry of Forests report, roughly half of the province's pine trees are now destroyed by the bug, with the most extensive damage occurring in the central Canadian Rockies, where two - thirds of the region's lodgepole pine forests have been transformed into a sea of orange needles.