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PARACERVICAL BLOCK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Regional anesthesia resulting from the injection of a local anesthetic on each side of the cervix; used during labor and childbirth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("paracervical block" 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))