REGIONAL ANESTHESIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regional anesthesia mean? 

• REGIONAL ANESTHESIA (noun)
  The noun REGIONAL ANESTHESIA has 1 sense:

1. 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)

  Familiarity information: REGIONAL ANESTHESIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGIONAL ANESTHESIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

regional anaesthesia; regional anesthesia

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

anaesthesia; anesthesia (loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness)

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

acroanaesthesia; acroanesthesia (loss of sensation in the extremities)

caudal anaesthesia; caudal anesthesia; caudal block (regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the caudal end of the spinal canal; now largely replaced by epidural anesthesia)

epidural; epidural anaesthesia; epidural anesthesia (regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the epidural space of the spinal cord; sensation is lost in the abdominal and genital and pelvic areas; used in childbirth and gynecological surgery)

paracervical block (regional anesthesia resulting from the injection of a local anesthetic on each side of the cervix; used during labor and childbirth)

pudendal block (regional anesthesia resulting from the use of a local anesthetic to deaden the pudendal nerves in the region of the vulva and labia majora; used to ease discomfort during childbirth)

spinal; spinal anaesthesia; spinal anesthesia (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)

 Context examples 

Regional anesthesia: blocks pain in an area of the body, such an arm or leg. Epidural anesthesia, which is sometimes used during childbirth, is a type of regional anesthesia.

(Anesthesia, NIH)

Regional anesthesia is a loss of feeling in a part of the body, such as an arm or leg.

(Anesthesia, NCI Dictionary)

The practice of piercing specific points on the body with very thin sterile needles in order to relieve pain or induce regional anesthesia.

(Acupuncture Therapy, NCI Thesaurus)