CONDUCTION ANESTHESIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conduction anesthesia mean? 

• CONDUCTION ANESTHESIA (noun)
  The noun CONDUCTION ANESTHESIA has 1 sense:

1. anesthesia of an area supplied by a nerve; produced by an anesthetic agent applied to the nerve

  Familiarity information: CONDUCTION ANESTHESIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONDUCTION ANESTHESIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Anesthesia of an area supplied by a nerve; produced by an anesthetic agent applied to the nerve

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

block anaesthesia; block anesthesia; conduction anaesthesia; conduction anesthesia; nerve block anaesthesia; nerve block anesthesia

Hypernyms ("conduction anesthesia" is a kind of...):

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