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caudal anesthesia

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noun

Medicine/Medical.
  1. anesthesia below the pelvis, induced by injecting an anesthetic into the sacral portion of the spinal canal.


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They deny that continuous caudal anesthesia is any more dangerous than spinal anesthesia�both injections must be done by experts.

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Many paralytics and iron-lung mothers have given birth to normal babies; their condition is somewhat similar to that induced by the pain-killing caudal anesthesia.

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Journal two Chicago doctors reported that caudal anesthesia slowed up delivery in their 20 cases because the patient "has absolutely no urge to bear down."

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Mrs. Gallagher, wide awake and sipping Coca-Cola, had had only light caudal anesthesia.

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