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Locoregional anesthesia

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Anesthesia that produces loss of pain only in the region of the surgery.

This may be done by a 'spinal' in which an anesthetic agent is administered by lumbar injection.

Locoregional anesthesia is in contrast to general anesthesia on the one hand and local anesthesia on the other

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