Medical Dictionary

epidural anesthesia

noun

Medical Definition of EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA

:  anesthesia produced by injection of a local anesthetic into the peridural space of the spinal cord beneath the ligamentum flavum—called also peridural anesthesia

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