regional anaesthesia

Questions about regional anaesthesia

What does regional anaesthesia mean?

regional anaesthesia means "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)".

What is another word for regional anaesthesia?

Close synonyms include regional 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 regional anaesthesia a common word?

regional 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.