regional anaesthesia
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.71 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
n
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)