lidocaine (redirected from Lidoderm)

lidocaine /li·do·caine/ (li´do-kan) an anesthetic with sedative, analgesic, and cardiac depressant properties, applied topically in the form of the base or hydrochloride salt as a local anesthetic; also used in the latter form as a cardiac antiarrhythmic and to produce infiltration anesthesia and various nerve blocks.

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li·do·caine (ld-kn)

n.

A synthetic amide used as a local anesthetic.

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lidocaine

a local anesthetic used as a cardiac antiarrhythmic and to produce infiltration anesthesia and epidural and peripheral nerve blocks. Called also lignocaine.