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

1 sense of saddle block anesthesia

Sense 1
saddle block anesthesia, saddle block anaesthesia -- (the parts of a patient's body that would touch a saddle if the patient were sitting in one are anesthetized by injecting a local anesthetic into the spinal cord)
       => spinal anesthesia, spinal anaesthesia, spinal -- (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)