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Definition of Regional anaesthesia
1. Noun. 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).
Generic synonyms: Anaesthesia, Anesthesia
Specialized synonyms: Acroanaesthesia, Acroanesthesia, Caudal Anaesthesia, Caudal Anesthesia, Caudal Block, Epidural, Epidural Anaesthesia, Epidural Anesthesia, Paracervical Block, Pudendal Block, Spinal, Spinal Anaesthesia, Spinal Anesthesia
Medical Definition of Regional anaesthesia
1. Use of local anaesthetic solution(s) to produce circumscribed areas of loss of sensation; a generic term including conduction, nerve block, spinal, epidural, field block, infiltration, and topical anaesthesia. Synonym: conduction analgesia. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Regional Anaesthesia
Literary usage of Regional anaesthesia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"A little more time is required for regional anaesthesia than for the induction
of general narcosis, but the advantages of the method greatly compensate for ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1904)
"In using Oberst's method for regional anaesthesia, Aulhorn prefers the older ...
Braun's method of inducing regional anaesthesia was also extensively used, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"regional anaesthesia can be produced (a) by the infiltration of the actual tissues
to be lacerated with some substance which paralyses the endings of the ..."
4. A Textbook of Pharmacology and Therapeutics: Or, The Action of Drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1910)
"The local action in both infiltration and regional anaesthesia may be augmented
and the danger of general poisoning lessened by retarding the circulation in ..."
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