SADDLE BLOCK ANESTHESIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does saddle block anesthesia mean? 

• SADDLE BLOCK ANESTHESIA (noun)
  The noun SADDLE BLOCK ANESTHESIA has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: SADDLE BLOCK ANESTHESIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SADDLE BLOCK ANESTHESIA (noun)

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

saddle block anaesthesia; saddle block anesthesia

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)