SPINAL ANESTHESIA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Anesthesia of the lower half of the body; caused by injury to the spinal cord or by injecting an anesthetic beneath the arachnoid membrane that surrounds the spinal cord

Synonyms:

spinal; spinal anaesthesia; spinal anesthesia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("spinal anesthesia" is a kind of...):

regional anaesthesia; regional anesthesia (loss of sensation in a region of the body produced by application of an anesthetic agent to all the nerves supplying that region (as when an epidural anesthetic is administered to the pelvic region during childbirth))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spinal anesthesia"):

saddle block anaesthesia; saddle block anesthesia (the parts of a patient's body that would touch a saddle if the patient were sitting in one are anesthetized by injecting a local anesthetic into the spinal cord)

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