Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun caudal_anesthesia

1 sense of caudal anesthesia

Sense 1
caudal anesthesia, caudal anaesthesia, caudal block -- (regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the caudal end of the spinal canal; now largely replaced by epidural anesthesia)
       => regional anesthesia, regional anaesthesia -- (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))