Local anesthesia is any technique to induce the absence of sensation in part of the body, generally for the aim of inducing local analgesia, that is, local insensitivity to pain, although other local senses may be affected as well. It allows patients to undergo surgical and dental procedures with reduced pain and distress. In many situations, such...
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A temporary loss of feeling in one small area of the body caused by special drugs or other substances called anesthetics. The patient stays awake but has no feeling in the area of the body treated with the anesthetic.
relieves the sensation of pain in a localized area.
As anesthesia can be described as a loss of feeling or the inability to feel pain and an anesthetic is a method of pain prevention a local anesthesia can be described as the loss of feeling in a small area of the body as a method of pain prevention.
Relieves the sensation of pain in a specific area.
An injection of anesthesia
Type: Term Definitions: 1. a general term referring to topical, infiltration, field block, or nerve block anesthesia but usually not to spinal or epidural anesthesia; may also refer to pharmacologic agents used to achieve local anesthesia.
[n] - loss of sensation in a small area of the body (as when a local anesthetic is injected for a tooth extraction)
local anaesthesia noun loss of sensation in a small area of the body (as when a local anesthetic is injected for a tooth extraction)
The loss of pain sensation over a specific area of the anatomy without loss of consciousness.
Relieves the sensation of pain in a localized area.
anesthetic medicine injected into the site of the operation to temporarily numb that area.
An injection of anesthesia to numb a small area on the body. Women are often given a local before receiving an epidural or an episiotomy.