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chemonucleolysis

che·mo·nu·cle·ol·y·sis [ kmō nooklee ólləssiss ]


noun 
Definition:
 
breakdown of disk pulp by enzyme: injection of an enzyme into the pulpy material of an intervertebral disk so that it becomes liquefied and minimizes pressure on adjacent nerve roots in a slipped disk

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