SADDLE BLOCK ANESTHESIA

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 I. (noun) 

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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 cord

Synonyms:

saddle block anaesthesia; saddle block anesthesia

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("saddle block anesthesia" 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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