spinal anaesthetic

1. 1.

   an anesthetic that is injected into the spine

   Synonymsspinal anesthetic

   Broaderanesthetic

   Narrowerpiperocaine

Questions about spinal anaesthetic

What does spinal anaesthetic mean?

spinal anaesthetic means "an anesthetic that is injected into the spine".

What is another word for spinal anaesthetic?

Close synonyms include spinal anesthetic. 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 spinal anaesthetic a common word?

spinal anaesthetic 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.