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Medical dictionary. 2011.
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conduction anesthesia — noun anesthesia of an area supplied by a nerve; produced by an anesthetic agent applied to the nerve • Syn: ↑conduction anaesthesia, ↑nerve block anesthesia, ↑nerve block anaesthesia, ↑block anesthesia, ↑block anaesthesia • Hypernyms: ↑anesthes … Useful english dictionary
anesthesia — noun loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness • Syn: ↑anaesthesia • Derivationally related forms: ↑anaesthetic (for: ↑anaesthesia), ↑anaesthetist (for: ↑ana … Useful english dictionary
conduction anaesthesia — noun anesthesia of an area supplied by a nerve; produced by an anesthetic agent applied to the nerve • Syn: ↑conduction anesthesia, ↑nerve block anesthesia, ↑nerve block anaesthesia, ↑block anesthesia, ↑block anaesthesia • Hypernyms: ↑anesthesia … Useful english dictionary
Anesthesia — Loss of feeling or awareness. A local anesthetic causes loss of feeling in a part of the body. A general anesthetic puts the person to sleep. * * * 1. Loss of sensation resulting from pharmacologic depression of nerve function or from neurologic… … Medical dictionary
block anesthesia — noun anesthesia of an area supplied by a nerve; produced by an anesthetic agent applied to the nerve • Syn: ↑conduction anesthesia, ↑conduction anaesthesia, ↑nerve block anesthesia, ↑nerve block anaesthesia, ↑block anaesthesia • Hypernyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
nerve block anesthesia — noun anesthesia of an area supplied by a nerve; produced by an anesthetic agent applied to the nerve • Syn: ↑conduction anesthesia, ↑conduction anaesthesia, ↑nerve block anaesthesia, ↑block anesthesia, ↑block anaesthesia • Hypernyms: ↑anesthesia … Useful english dictionary
Local anesthesia — Intervention MeSH D000772 Local anesthesia is any technique to induce the absence of sensation in part of the body,[1] generally fo … Wikipedia
spinal anesthesia — noun 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 • Syn: ↑spinal anaesthesia, ↑spinal • Hypernyms: ↑regional anesthesia,… … Useful english dictionary
regional anesthesia — n anesthesia of a region of the body accomplished by a series of encircling injections of an anesthetic compare BLOCK ANESTHESIA * * * the production of insensibility of a part by interrupting the sensory nerve conductivity from that region of… … Medical dictionary
spinal anesthesia — Med. interruption of conduction of nerve impulses by the injection of an anesthetic into the spinal canal that reduces sensitivity to pain without loss of consciousness. * * * … Universalium
