block anesthesia

Questions about block anesthesia

What is another word for block anesthesia?

It depends which block anesthesia you mean. In the sense “anesthesia of an area supplied by a nerve; produced by an anesthetic agent applied to the nerve”, the synonyms are conduction anesthesia, conduction anaesthesia, nerve block anesthesia, nerve block anaesthesia, block anaesthesia. Across all 1 sense there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of block anesthesia?

WordNet records no antonym for block anesthesia. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for block anesthesia come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of block anesthesia

• Full entry for block anesthesiaAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for block anesthesiaWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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