| CAVD | complete atrioventricular dissociation; completion, arithmetic problems, vocabulary, following direc... |
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| CAVO | common atrioventricular orifice |
| EAVC | enhanced atrioventricular conduction |
| EAVN | enhanced atrioventricular nodal [conduction] |
| NPJT | nonparoxysmal atrioventricular junctional tachycardia |
| field block anaesthesia | Conduction anaesthesia in which small nerves are not anaesthetised individually, as in nerve block anaesthesia, but instead are blocked en masse by local anaesthetic solution injected to form a barrier proximal to the operative site. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| fish-block | See Fish-tackle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| local nerve block | Infiltration of a local anesthetic around a peripheral nerve so as to produce anesthesia in the area supplied by the nerve. (16 Dec 1997) |