glove anesthesia

glove anesthesia (glv)

n.

Loss of sensation in an area that would be covered by a glove.

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glove anesthesia,

n a hypnotic technique used to relieve pain. The patient's hand is made to feel numb; the numbness then acts as an anesthetic by transferring the numbness to any other body part that it touches.

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anesthesia (an´esthē´zē, an´esthē´zh),

n the loss of feeling or sensation, especially loss of tactile sensibility, with or without loss of consciousness, resulting from the use of certain drugs or gases that serve as inhibitory neurotransmitters.

anesthesia, basal,

n a state of narcosis, induced before the administration of a general anesthetic, that permits the production of states of surgical anesthesia with greatly reduced amounts of general anesthetic agents.

anesthesia, block,

n a local anesthesia induced by injecting the local anesthetic drug close to the nerve trunk, at some distance from the operative field. See also anesthesia, infiltration, and block.

anesthesia, conduction,

n a local anesthesia induced by injecting the local anesthetic agent close to the nerve trunk, at some distance from the operative field.

anesthesia, general,

n an irregular, reversible depression of the cells of the higher centers of the central nervous system that makes the patient unconscious and insensible to pain.

anesthesia, glove,

n an anesthesia with a distribution corresponding to the part of the skin covered by a glove.

anesthesia, infiltration,

n a local anesthesia induced by injecting the anesthetic agent directly into or around the tissues to be anesthetized; used for operative procedures on the maxillary premolar, anterior teeth, and
mandibular incisors. Also called field block. See also anesthesia, block.

Infiltration anesthesia.

anesthesia, intraosseous,

n the local anesthesia produced by the injection of a local anesthetic agent into the cancellous portion of a bone.

anesthesia, intrapulpal,

n the injection of a local anesthetic agent directly into pulpal tissue under pressure.

anesthesia, local,

n (regional anesthesia), the loss of pain sensation over a specific area of the anatomy without loss of consciousness.

anesthesia, regional,

n a term used for local anesthesia. See also anesthesia, local.

anesthesia, topical,

n a form of local anesthetic agent with which the surface free nerve endings in accessible structures are rendered incapable of stimulation by applying a suitable solution directly to the surface of the area. Used on the surface soft tissue before a local anesthetic injection to anesthetize surface soft tissues for minor operative procedures.