subarachnoid block
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A regional technique in which local anaesthetic is injected into the cerebrospinal fluid to anaesthetise the lower body.
We performed a subarachnoid block at the L3-L4 space for her elective caesarean section.
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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