#regional_anesthesia__regional_anaesthesia  loss of sensation in a region of the body produced by application of an anesthetic agent to all the nerves supplying that region (as when an epidural anesthetic is administered to the pelvic region during childbirth)
  subtype:  acroanesthesia  caudal_anesthesia  epidural_anesthesia  paracervical_block  pudendal_block  spinal_anesthesia
  supertype:  anesthesia__anaesthesia  loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness
     supertype:  physiological_state__physiologicalstate__physiological_condition__physiologicalcondition  the condition of the body or bodily functions
        supertype:  condition.state__status  a condition or state at a particular time: "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
           supertype:  state  the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"
              supertype:  state  situation that is not a process
                 supertype:  situation  something that "occurs" in a real/imaginary region of time and space
                    supertype:  thing__something___T__t___3D_or_4D_thing_or_anything_else  any category (type or individual) is instance of this type; any type is also a subtype of this type
              supertype:  process__proces__physicalsituation  intuitively, the class of things that happen and have temporal parts or stages; examples include extended events like a football match or a race, actions like pursuing and reading, and biological processes; sumo#process is not identical to pm#situation because an instance of pm#situation is not necessarily an instance of sumo#physical
                 supertype:  situation  something that "occurs" in a real/imaginary region of time and space
                 supertype:  process_or_process_description
                    supertype:  processing_thing
                       supertype:  thing_playing_some_role  category to classify things according to roles/viewpoints; classification under this category is application-dependant
                          supertype:  thing__something___T__t___3D_or_4D_thing_or_anything_else  any category (type or individual) is instance of this type; any type is also a subtype of this type
                 supertype:  physical__physical_thing  an entity that has a location in space-time; locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time; click here for more details on the identical category sowa#physical_thing
                    supertype:  thing__something___T__t___3D_or_4D_thing_or_anything_else  any category (type or individual) is instance of this type; any type is also a subtype of this type

No statement uses or specializes regional_anesthesia; click here to add one.