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SADDLE BLOCK ANESTHESIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
saddle block anaesthesia; saddle block anesthesia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("saddle block anesthesia" is a kind of...):
spinal; spinal anaesthesia; spinal anesthesia (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)
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