topical anesthesia

1. 1.

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

   Synonymstopical anaesthesia

   Broaderanesthesia

Questions about topical anesthesia

What does topical anesthesia mean?

topical anesthesia 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 anesthesia?

Close synonyms include topical 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 topical anesthesia a common word?

topical 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.