preterminal in English

adjective

prior to death, preceding death

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1. Report on new observations with respect to the effectiveness of muscular neurotisation (i.e., growth of preterminal nerve fibers from an implanted healthy muscle into the paretic host muscle) in cases of abducens pareses: in one patient a reinnervation was achieved although the onset of paralysis was about 7 years ago; the influence of the transposition (of the inferior oblique muscle into the paralyzed lateral rectus muscle) on elevation of the globe is rather unpronounced and, moreover, reversible; adhesions may prevent the success of the transposition as they restrict the motility.