regional nerve block

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• Nerve block — Intervention ICD 9 CM 04.81 MeSH …   Wikipedia

• nerve block — n 1) an interruption of the passage of impulses through a nerve (as with pressure or narcotization) called also nerve blocking 2) BLOCK ANESTHESIA * * * a method of producing anaesthesia in part of the body by blocking the passage of pain… …   Medical dictionary

• Regional anaesthesia — Regional anaesthesia, is anesthesia affecting only a large part of the body, such as a limb. Regional anaesthetic techniques can be divided into central and peripheral techniques. The central techniques include so called neuroaxial blocks… …   Wikipedia

• regional anesthesia — n anesthesia of a region of the body accomplished by a series of encircling injections of an anesthetic compare BLOCK ANESTHESIA * * * the production of insensibility of a part by interrupting the sensory nerve conductivity from that region of… …   Medical dictionary

• block — 1. To obstruct; to arrest passage through. 2. A condition in which the passage of an electrical impulse is arrested, wholly or in part, temporarily or permanently. 3. SYN: atrioventricular b.. [Fr. bloquer] alveolocapillary b. the presence of… …   Medical dictionary

• block anesthesia — noun anesthesia of an area supplied by a nerve; produced by an anesthetic agent applied to the nerve • Syn: ↑conduction anesthesia, ↑conduction anaesthesia, ↑nerve block anesthesia, ↑nerve block anaesthesia, ↑block anaesthesia • Hypernyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• block anesthesia — n local anesthesia (as by injection) produced by interruption of the flow of impulses along a nerve trunk compare REGIONAL ANESTHESIA * * * regional a …   Medical dictionary

• Retrobulbar block — A retrobulbar block is a regional anesthetic nerve block into the retrobulbar space, the area located behind the globe of the eye. Injection of local anesthetic into this space constitutes the retrobulbar block. This injection provides akinesia… …   Wikipedia

• vagal block — vagus nerve block regional anesthesia produced by blocking of vagal impulses by injection of a local anesthetic into the vagus nerve at its exit from the skull …   Medical dictionary

• intercostal block — intercostal nerve block regional anesthesia produced by blocking intercostal nerves with a local anesthetic …   Medical dictionary

• femoral block — regional anesthesia of the posterior thigh and the leg below the knee by injection of a local anesthetic around the femoral nerve just below the inguinal ligament at the lateral border of the fossa ovalis …   Medical dictionary