SPINAL ANESTHESIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spinal anesthesia mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPINAL ANESTHESIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

spinal; spinal anaesthesia; spinal anesthesia

Hypernyms ("spinal anesthesia" 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))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spinal anesthesia"):

saddle block anaesthesia; saddle block anesthesia (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)

 Context examples 

Shock resulting from neurogenic vasodilation, which can be produced by cerebral trauma or hemorrhage, spinal cord injury, deep general or spinal anesthesia, or toxic central nervous system depression.

(Neurogenic Shock, NCI Thesaurus)