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Definition of Local anaesthesia
1. Noun. Loss of sensation in a small area of the body (as when a local anesthetic is injected for a tooth extraction).
Medical Definition of Local anaesthesia
1. The use of a local anaesthetic (usually injected into the tissue) results in a small region of anaesthesia (numbness). Lidocaine (Xylocaine) or (Marcaine) are commonly used. Origin: Gr. Aisthesis = sensation (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Local Anaesthesia
Literary usage of Local anaesthesia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1892)
"35, 1891), reports three cases in which he performed laparotomy, after inducing
local anaesthesia with ether and cocaine. ..."
2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"For strangulated hernia, regional or local anaesthesia is imperative, ... A.
local anaesthesia in radical cure of in the radical cure of certain cases of ..."
3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1876)
"Discovery of Dr. Letamendi in Regard to the Production of local anaesthesia. ...
are sometimes experienced in producing local anaesthesia even when the best ..."
4. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1895)
"Another fact commends local anaesthesia, the brief time required, especially in
comparison with that needed for anaesthetic inhalation. ..."
5. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1849)
"In Batrachian Reptiles, the tail, or an individual limb, can bu affected in the
same way with local anaesthesia, by the local application of the chloroform ..."
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