Definition of Local anesthesia

1. Noun. Loss of sensation in a small area of the body (as when a local anesthetic is injected for a tooth extraction).

Exact synonyms: Local Anaesthesia
Generic synonyms: Anaesthesia, Anesthesia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Local Anesthesia

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lobus renalis
lobus sinister
lobus superior pulmonis
lobus temporalis
lobworm
lobworms
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local administrative unit
local anaemia
local anaesthesia
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local anaesthetic reaction
local anaesthetics
local anaphylaxis
local anesthesia (current term)
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local area network
local area networks
local asphyxia
local authority
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local circuit theory
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Literary usage of Local anesthesia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Local and Regional Anesthesia: With Chapters on Spinal, Epidural by Carroll Woolsey Allen (1920)
"The evidence on this point can be traced to numerous and even ancient sources, but its great significance in the practice of local anesthesia has been most ..."

2. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1922)
"ing under local anesthesia. It has been our plan to open the abdomen under local anesthesia, and where complicated pathology is anticipated, to precede this ..."

3. The Surgical Clinics of North America by Robert E. Hermann, Avram M. Cooperman (1921)
"SUBOCCIPITAL CRANIOTOMY AND REMOVAL OF ARCHES OF ATLAS AND AXIS UNDER LOCAL ANESTHESIA THE symptoms in this patient (Mrs. S., thirty-eight years old) began ..."

4. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1922)
"It does not seem that local anesthesia gradually developed into regional anesthesia which is based on entirely different principles, but the constant desire ..."

5. Surgery, Its Principles and Practice by William Williams Keen (1909)
"An attack of apoplexy and his death occurred soon after he had finished the section on local anesthesia and was about to write the remaining section on ..."

6. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1908)
"PRELIMINARY NOTE ON ENUCLEATION OF EYEBALL UNDER local anesthesia. BY H. DICKSON BRUNS, MD, AND ERNEST A. ROBIN, MD Chief of Clinic Eye Department of the ..."

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