Numbing of a portion of the body, usually by injection of drugs, for minor surgery.

The loss of pain sensation over a specific area of the anatomy without loss of consciousness.

The use of anesthetic agents to make the patient comfortable during surgery. In cataract surgery this usually involves injectable anesthetic agents around the eye.

numbing medicine injected into skin

medicine that numbs the area of surgery to prevent pain.

Anesthesia confined to one area of the body; the production of insensibility in a small, specific body area by interrupting the sensory nerve conductivity from that region of the body. During the LipoSelection® procedure, some doctors induce local (sometimes in conjunction with IV sedation) in lieu of general anesthesia. When inducing local, the anesthetic drug is administered via infusion of a pre-mixed wetting solution.

Anesthesia used to affect a local area only. Contrast with general anesthesia

A method of preventing pain by inducing the loss of sensation in a certain area of the body while the patient remains awake.

anesthetic medicine injected into the site of the operation to temporarily numb that area.

Most commonly used during plastic surgical procedures when you receive an injection, or "shot" to numb the immediate area where the treatment will be performed. Local anesthetic is very important during the surgical process. The reason you receive local injections is because of the properties in the pain reliever itself (lidocaine), as well as the addition of epinephrine, which is a vasoconstrictor to impede bleeding.

The use of drugs that prevent pain in a part of the body.

LOW-cull ann-es-THEE-zee-ah] The patient is awake but drugs have been given to decrease or stop sensation in the area of surgery.

A partial'or complete elimination of pain sensation in a specific area, commonly referred to as numbing.

Numbs the surgical area.

Partial or complete elimination of pain sensation, in the immediate vicinity of its application or injection

pain medication affecting the location of the wound only

Drugs that cause a temporary loss of feeling in one part of the body. The patient remains awake but has no feeling in the part of the body treated with the anesthetic.

An injection of anesthesia to numb a small area on the body. Women are often given a local before receiving an epidural or an episiotomy.

The use of a local anaesthetic (usually injected into the tissue) results in a small region of anaesthesia (numbness) so that biopsy or minor surgical procedures can be performed.. Lidocaine (Xylocaine) or (Marcaine) are commonly used.

Loss of sensation only in one part of the body induced by application of an anesthetic agent.

A form of anesthetic directly injected into the site of the surgery, causing numbness to that area.

Anesthetic fluid injected to numb a certain area for operation.

See anesthesia.

medication given in a specific area of the body. The numbing effect does not extend past the area where the anesthetic is injected (unlike spinal or epidural anesthesia).

(LOW-cul ann-es-THEE-zee-ah) Absence of sensation induced by drugs. The patient is awake but has no sensation in the area of surgery.

Relieves the sensation of pain in a localized area.

Local anesthesia is any technique to render part of the body insensitive to pain without affecting consciousness.