What does regional anesthesia mean?
• REGIONAL ANESTHESIA (noun) The noun REGIONAL ANESTHESIA has 1 sense: 1. loss of sensation in a region of the body produced by application of an anesthetic agent to all the nerves supplying that region (as when an epidural anesthetic is administered to the pelvic region during childbirth) Familiarity information: REGIONAL ANESTHESIA used as a noun is very rare.