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A temporary loss of feeling in the abdomen and/or the lower part of the body. Special drugs called anesthetics are injected into the fluid in the lower part of the spinal column to cause the loss of feeling. The patient stays awake during the procedure. It is a type of regional anesthesia. Also called SAB, spinal block, and subarachnoid block.
anesthesia due to a spinal lesion. regional anesthesia produced by injection of the agent beneath the membrane of the spinal cord. Called also spinal block.
Type: Term Definitions: 1. loss of sensation produced by injection of local anesthetic solution(s) into the spinal subarachnoid space; 2. loss of sensation produced by disease of the spinal cord. Synonyms: subarachnoid anesthesia
[n] - anesthesia of the lower half of the body
spinal anaesthesia noun 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
Numbing of the lower half of the body; unlike an epidural, the catheter is not left in place
Anesthesia given in the spinal canal.
Anesthesia given in the spinal canal.