Noun: spinal anaesthesia
- Anaesthesia of the lower half of the body; caused by injury to the spinal cord or by injecting an anaesthetic beneath the arachnoid membrane that surrounds the spinal cord
"The surgeon chose spinal anaesthesia for the knee replacement surgery"; "The surgeon chose spinal anaesthesia for the knee replacement surgery";
- spinal anesthesia, spinal
Type of: regional anaesthesia [Brit, Cdn], regional anesthesia [N. Amer]
Encyclopedia: Spinal anaesthesia