local anaesthetic

British

noun

Often shortened to: local. med a drug that produces local anaesthesia See anaesthesia

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Laser therapy, or laser ablation, is a procedure done under local anaesthetic where a laser burns away the abnormal cells.

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She was given a local anaesthetic but Mrs Lord says the pain did not go away.

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Ms Bacon was given a local anaesthetic to numb her scalp and skull and had immediate improvement in her fingers on the operating table, allowing her to play the clarinet easily.

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For the duration of the procedure the client is wide awake, having had low levels of local anaesthetic injected into the skin and the deeper tissue beneath.

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Despite the local anaesthetic, she said she could "feel everything".

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