Regional anesthesia and Spinal

Regional anesthesia noun - 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).

Spinal and regional anesthesia are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Spinal" with "Regional anesthesia", this terms are similar.

Spinal 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.

Regional anesthesia and spinal are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Regional anesthesia" instead a noun "Spinal".

Nearby Word: spine