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    SADDLE BLOCK ANAESTHESIA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The parts of a patient's body that would touch a saddle if the patient were sitting in one are anesthetized by injecting a local anesthetic into the spinal cordplay

    Synonyms:

    saddle block anaesthesia; saddle block anesthesia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("saddle block anaesthesia" is a kind of...):

    spinal; spinal anaesthesia; spinal anesthesia (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)

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