topical anaesthesia

1. 1.

   loss of sensation confined to the skin or mucous surfaces (as when benzocaine or Lidocaine is applied to the surface)

   Synonymstopical anesthesia

   Broaderanesthesia

Questions about topical anaesthesia

What does topical anaesthesia mean?

topical anaesthesia means "loss of sensation confined to the skin or mucous surfaces (as when benzocaine or Lidocaine is applied to the surface)".

What is another word for topical anaesthesia?

Close synonyms include topical 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 topical anaesthesia a common word?

topical 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.