LOCAL ANAESTHESIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does local anaesthesia mean? 

• LOCAL ANAESTHESIA (noun)
  The noun LOCAL ANAESTHESIA has 1 sense:

1. loss of sensation in a small area of the body (as when a local anesthetic is injected for a tooth extraction)

  Familiarity information: LOCAL ANAESTHESIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOCAL ANAESTHESIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Loss of sensation in a small area of the body (as when a local anesthetic is injected for a tooth extraction)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

local anaesthesia; local anesthesia

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

anaesthesia; anesthesia (loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness)