Term: 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)
Candidate hypernym: physical condition: the condition or state of the body or bodily functions → 1
Candidate hypernym: standard: a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated → 0
Candidate hypernym: sodalist: a member of a sodality → 0
Candidate hypernym: safety match: a paper match that strikes only on a specially prepared surface → 0
Candidate hypernym: emigrant: someone who leaves one country to settle in another → 0
Candidate hypernym: spanish mackerel: flesh of commercially important fishes especially of the Atlantic coastal waters of America → 0
Candidate hypernym: vane: a fin attached to the tail of an arrow, bomb or missile in order to stabilize or guide it → 0
Candidate hypernym: summation: (physiology) the process whereby multiple stimuli can produce a response (in a muscle or nerve or other part) that one stimulus alone does not produce → 0
Candidate hypernym: fever tree: ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever → 0
Candidate hypernym: integral: the result of a mathematical integration; F(x) is the integral of f(x) if dF/dx = f(x) → 0
Candidate hypernym: northern pike: voracious piscivorous pike of waters of northern hemisphere → 0