caudal anaesthesia

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscaudal anesthesiacaudal block

   Broaderregional anesthesia

Questions about caudal anaesthesia

What does caudal anaesthesia mean?

caudal anaesthesia means "regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the caudal end of the spinal canal; now largely replaced by epidural anesthesia".

What is another word for caudal anaesthesia?

Close synonyms include caudal anesthesia, caudal block. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is caudal anaesthesia a common word?

caudal anaesthesia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.