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)
Broader: physical condition: the condition or state of the body or bodily functions | Unrelated: standard: a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
Broader: physical condition: the condition or state of the body or bodily functions | Unrelated: sodalist: a member of a sodality
Broader: physical condition: the condition or state of the body or bodily functions | Unrelated: safety match: a paper match that strikes only on a specially prepared surface
Broader: physical condition: the condition or state of the body or bodily functions | Unrelated: emigrant: someone who leaves one country to settle in another
Broader: physical condition: the condition or state of the body or bodily functions | Unrelated: spanish mackerel: flesh of commercially important fishes especially of the Atlantic coastal waters of America
Broader: physical condition: the condition or state of the body or bodily functions | Unrelated: vane: a fin attached to the tail of an arrow, bomb or missile in order to stabilize or guide it
Broader: physical condition: the condition or state of the body or bodily functions | Unrelated: 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
Broader: physical condition: the condition or state of the body or bodily functions | Unrelated: 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
Broader: physical condition: the condition or state of the body or bodily functions | Unrelated: integral: the result of a mathematical integration; F(x) is the integral of f(x) if dF/dx = f(x)
Broader: physical condition: the condition or state of the body or bodily functions | Unrelated: northern pike: voracious piscivorous pike of waters of northern hemisphere