CAUDAL ANESTHESIA as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the caudal end of the spinal canal
   • now largely replaced by epidural anesthesia
   Synonym(s)
   • caudal anaesthesia (what does caudal anaesthesia mean?)
   • caudal block (what does caudal block mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) caudal anesthesia is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • regional anesthesia (what does regional anesthesia mean?)
   • regional anaesthesia (what does regional anaesthesia mean?)