Term: epidural anesthesia: regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the epidural space of the spinal cord; sensation is lost in the abdominal and genital and pelvic areas; used in childbirth and gynecological surgery
Candidate hypernym: regional anesthesia: 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) → 1
Candidate hypernym: daybook: a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred → 0
Candidate hypernym: trench knife: a knife with a double-edged blade for hand-to-hand fighting → 0
Candidate hypernym: sinecure: an office that involves minimal duties → 0
Candidate hypernym: bleach: the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent) → 0
Candidate hypernym: sapodilla: large tropical American evergreen yielding chicle gum and edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Achras → 0
Candidate hypernym: reoviridae: a family of arboviruses carried by arthropods → 0
Candidate hypernym: gurkha: a member of Hindu people descended from brahmins and Rajputs who live in Nepal → 0
Candidate hypernym: borrowing: obtaining funds from a lender → 0
Candidate hypernym: hospitableness: having a disposition that welcomes guests and is fond of entertaining → 0
Candidate hypernym: xiphoid process: smallest of the three parts of the breastbone; articulates with the corpus sternum and the seventh rib → 0