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: condition: a state at a particular time → 1
Candidate hypernym: tattler: any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry → 0
Candidate hypernym: languor: inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy → 0
Candidate hypernym: hypokalemia: abnormally low level of potassium in the circulating blood leading to weakness and heart abnormalities; associated with adrenal tumors or starvation or taking diuretics → 0
Candidate hypernym: burnup: the amount of fuel used up (as in a nuclear reactor) → 0
Candidate hypernym: wheat germ: embryo of the wheat kernel; removed before milling and eaten as a source of vitamins → 0
Candidate hypernym: anil: a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically → 0
Candidate hypernym: special branch: a government police department dealing with political security → 0
Candidate hypernym: flower cluster: an inflorescence consisting of a cluster of flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: horseshoe bat: any of numerous bats of the family Hipposideridae of northwest Africa or Philippines or Australia having a horseshoe-shaped leaf on the nose → 0
Candidate hypernym: spirogyra: freshwater algae consisting of minute filaments containing spiral chlorophyll bands → 0