1. regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the caudal end of the spinal canal; now largely replaced by epidural anesthesia; [syn: caudal anesthesia, caudal anaesthesia, caudal block]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
caudal block
n 1: regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an
anesthetic into the caudal end of the spinal canal; now
largely replaced by epidural anesthesia [syn: caudal
anesthesia, caudal anaesthesia, caudal block]