local anaesthesia

1. 1.

   loss of sensation in a small area of the body (as when a local anesthetic is injected for a tooth extraction)

   Synonymslocal anesthesia

   Broaderanesthesia

Questions about local anaesthesia

What does local anaesthesia mean?

local anaesthesia means "loss of sensation in a small area of the body (as when a local anesthetic is injected for a tooth extraction)".

What is another word for local anaesthesia?

Close synonyms include local anesthesia. 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 local anaesthesia a common word?

local 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.