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Definition of Spinal anaesthesia

1. Noun. Anesthesia of the lower half of the body; caused by injury to the spinal cord or by injecting an anesthetic beneath the arachnoid membrane that surrounds the spinal cord.

Medical Definition of Spinal anaesthesia

1. A form of regional anaesthesia that involves the injection of an anaesthetic into the epidural space (in the spinal canal), at predetermined location along the spine, to produce anaesthesia in all body regions that are supplied by nerves that arise below the anatomic region of the block. Often used for obstetrical procedures. Origin: Gr. Aisthesis = sensation (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spinal Anaesthesia

Literary usage of Spinal anaesthesia

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

1. International Clinics: A Quarterly of Clinical Lectures by Henry W. Cattell (1902)
"Sherrill concludes ' that spinal anaesthesia is not likely to be of use in ... Corning* suggests induction of spinal anaesthesia by cataphoresis with a ..."

2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1912)
"For the past six years spinal anaesthesia has been largely employed in our surgical clinic, and nearly three thousand five hundred intradural injections ..."

3. The Art of Anaesthesia by Paluel Joseph Flagg (1922)
"SPINAL ANESTHESIA CHAPTER XII GENERAL CONSIDERATION SPINAL anaesthesia is that type ... spinal anaesthesia is brought about by injecting the anaesthetizing ..."

4. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1906)
"Many surgeons have made extensive use of spinal anaesthesia, and have reported their results, favourable and unfavourable, freely, and a survey of some ..."

5. Gynecology by Brooke Melancthon Anspach (1921)
"spinal anaesthesia in Pelvic Surgery.—The administration of a general anaesthetic may be ... This leads us more or less logically to spinal anaesthesia, ..."

6. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1902)
"In reports of cases in which the operation was performed under spinal anaesthesia one is surprised to find simple operations like that for hydrocele ..."

7. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1902)
"Urinary Bladder in an Inguinal Hernia; Radical Operation Under spinal anaesthesia. — Dr. WILLY MEYER presented a man sixty years of age, who had entered the ..."

8. Oxford Loose-leaf Surgery by F. F. Burghard, Allen Buckner Kanavel (1920)
"In obstetric surgery spinal anaesthesia is relatively safe, and is efficient if the operation can be completed within the time limits of the analgesia. ..."

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