Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
conduction anesthesia
[ kuhn-duhk-shuhn an-uh s-thee-zhuh ]
Subclass of:
Anesthesia procedures
Definitions related to anesthesia, conduction:
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(regional anesthesia) A temporary loss of feeling or awareness in a part of the body, such as an arm or a leg, caused by special drugs or other substances called anesthetics. The patient stays awake but has no feeling in the part of the body treated with the anesthetic.NCI Dictionary of Cancer TermsU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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(conduction anesthesia) Block anesthesia; regional anesthesia in which local anesthetic solution is injected about nerves to inhibit nerve transmission; includes spinal, epidural, nerve block, and field block anesthesia, but not local or topical anesthesia.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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Injection of an anesthetic to inhibit nerve transmission in a specific part of the body.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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(regional anesthesia procedure) The administration of pharmaceutical agents intended to produce loss of sensation in a particular anatomical region.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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