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Regional anaesthesia

regional anaesthesia

use of local anaesthetic solution(s) to produce circumscribed areas of loss of sensation; a generic term including conduction, nerve block, spinal, epidural, field block, infiltration, and topical anaesthesia.

Synonym: conduction analgesia.


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