saddle block anesthesia
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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 (noun.state)
| hypernym | : | spinal, spinal anaesthesia, spinal anesthesia, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.state) |
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