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spinal anesthesia

noun

, Medicine/Medical.
  1. interruption of conduction of nerve impulses by the injection of an anesthetic into the spinal canal that reduces sensitivity to pain without loss of consciousness.


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The woman was conscious because she was given spinal anesthesia rather than a general anesthetic.

Giving pregnant women epidural spinal anesthesia to ease their pain during the late stages of labor and delivery may not prolong the birthing process, a new experiment suggests.

Surgical patients who receive local or spinal anesthesia also suffer cognitive problems, several studies have found.

Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and aims to measure intelligence at age 5 in 722 infants randomized to receive either general or spinal anesthesia for hernia repair surgeries.

Women who received epidural or spinal anesthesia provided at least one pain score.

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