regional anesthesia

Questions about regional anesthesia

What does regional anesthesia mean?

regional anesthesia 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 anesthesia?

Close synonyms include regional 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 regional anesthesia a common word?

regional 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.