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: condition: a state at a particular time | Unrelated: tattler: any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry
Broader: condition: a state at a particular time | Unrelated: languor: inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy
Broader: condition: a state at a particular time | Unrelated: 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
Broader: condition: a state at a particular time | Unrelated: burnup: the amount of fuel used up (as in a nuclear reactor)
Broader: condition: a state at a particular time | Unrelated: wheat germ: embryo of the wheat kernel; removed before milling and eaten as a source of vitamins
Broader: condition: a state at a particular time | Unrelated: anil: a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically
Broader: condition: a state at a particular time | Unrelated: special branch: a government police department dealing with political security
Broader: condition: a state at a particular time | Unrelated: flower cluster: an inflorescence consisting of a cluster of flowers
Broader: condition: a state at a particular time | Unrelated: 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
Broader: condition: a state at a particular time | Unrelated: spirogyra: freshwater algae consisting of minute filaments containing spiral chlorophyll bands