local anesthesia

1. 1.

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

   Synonymslocal anaesthesia

   Broaderanesthesia

Questions about local anesthesia

What does local anesthesia mean?

local anesthesia 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 anesthesia?

Close synonyms include local anaesthesia. 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 anesthesia a common word?

local anesthesia 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.