Search Result for "spinal anesthesia":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. anesthesia of the lower half of the body; caused by injury to the spinal cord or by injecting an anesthetic beneath the arachnoid membrane that surrounds the spinal cord;
[syn: spinal anesthesia, spinal anaesthesia, spinal]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

spinal anesthesia n 1: anesthesia of the lower half of the body; caused by injury to the spinal cord or by injecting an anesthetic beneath the arachnoid membrane that surrounds the spinal cord [syn: spinal anesthesia, spinal anaesthesia, spinal]