| NOUN | a local anaesthetic | local anaesthetics |
| SYNO | local | local anaesthetic | local anesthetic | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- As Vazirani-akinosi is a local anaesthetic technique which requires penetration of a significant thickness of soft tissues, a long needle is used.
- Local anaesthetic is used routinely for dental procedures in oral surgery, restorative, periodontal, and prosthetic dentistry.
- In the end, while working in operation theatre, Edwyn injects his scalp with local anaesthetic and drills a hole in his skull to liberate the virus, and the story ends with surgeons operating on him just as they were operating on Dr Holt in the beginning for subdural hemorrhage, as Edwyn says "Leave my soul alone".
- All hysteroscopy patients receive full written information before the procedure, listing the risks and benefits and explaining that local anaesthetic may be painful and ineffective against the severe pain of cervical dilation, womb distension and biopsy.
- Inferior nerve injury most commonly occurs during surgery including wisdom tooth, dental implant placement in the mandible, root canal treatment where tooth roots are close to the nerve canal in the mandible, deep dental local anaesthetic injections or orthognathic surgery.
- In his last ever Australian Open match the Aussie retired just three games into his third-round match against American Mardy Fish due to a rare reaction to a local anaesthetic.
- Most cataract operations are performed under a local anaesthetic, allowing the patient to go home the same day.
- Immediate though temporary relief of piriformis syndrome can usually be brought about by injection of a local anaesthetic into the piriformis muscle.
- It is intended to treat mild pain and also has antitussive (cough suppressant) and local anaesthetic effects.
- Local anaesthetic is utilised to achieve anaesthesia as well as haemostasis for improved visualisation.
- For example, it is added to combination drug formulations which contain a local anaesthetic and adrenaline, although the sodium metabisulphite reacts with adrenaline, causing it to degrade and form epinephrine sulphonate.
- For patients that are awake, a local anaesthetic is applied.
- A small dose of local anaesthetic (e.g. bupivacaine) is then instilled.
- There is weak evidence suggesting that taking pre-operative analgesia can reduce the length of post operative pain associated with placing orthodontic spacers under local anaesthetic.
- Less safe are cocaine (a stimulant and local anaesthetic) and ethanol (colloquially, the "alcohol" in alcoholic beverages, a widely available sedative consumed worldwide): the therapeutic indices for these substances are 15:1 and 10:1, respectively.
- One quick test a dentist might perform is a conventional inferior dental local anaesthetic block, if the pain is in this branch, as it will not arrest masticatory pain but will TN.
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