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spinal

DEFINITIONS OF: spinal

1

adj of or relating to the spine or spinal cord

“spinal cord”
“spinal injury”

n 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

Synonyms:
spinal anaesthesia, spinal anesthesia
Types:
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
Type 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)
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