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    CAUDAL ANAESTHESIA

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the caudal end of the spinal canal; now largely replaced by epidural anesthesiaplay

    Synonyms:

    caudal anaesthesia; caudal anesthesia; caudal block

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("caudal anaesthesia" is a kind of...):

    regional anaesthesia; regional anesthesia (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))

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