epidural anaesthesia
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
A regional technique in which local anaesthetic is delivered into the epidural space through a catheter to block spinal nerve roots.
Continuous epidural anaesthesia provided excellent pain relief throughout her labour and delivery.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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