| PAo | airway opening pressure; ascending aortic pressure; pulmonary artery occlusion pressure |
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| PAP | pancreatitis-associated protein; Papanicolaou [test]; papaverine; passive-aggressive personality; pa... |
| PIP | paralytic infantile paralysis; peak inflation pressure, peak inspiratory pressure; periodic interim ... |
| PVP | penicillin V potassium; peripheral vein plasma; peripheral venous pressure; polyvinylpyrrolidone; po... |
| SFP | screen filtration pressure; simultaneous foveal perception; spinal fluid pressure; stopped flow pres... |
low blood pressure
| cervical anaesthesia | Regional anaesthesia of the neck by injection of a local anaesthetic solution about the cervical nerves or into the cervical epidural space. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| retrobulbar anaesthesia | Injection of a local anaesthetic behind the eye to produce sensory denervation of the eye. (05 Mar 2000) |
| peridural anaesthesia | Regional anaesthesia produced by injection of local anaesthetic solution into the peridural space. Synonym: peridural anaesthesia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| perineural anaesthesia | An obsolete term for anaesthesia produced by injection of an anaesthetic agent around a nerve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| periodontal anaesthesia | Anaesthesia of the periodontal ligament, produced by injection of a local anaesthetic drug. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gustatory anaesthesia | Absence of the sense of taste. (12 Dec 1998) |
| circle absorption anaesthesia | Inhalation anaesthesia in which a circuit with carbon dioxide absorbent is used for complete (closed) or partial (saemiclosed) rebreathing of exhaled gases. (05 Mar 2000) |
| closed anaesthesia | Inhalation anaesthesia in which there is total rebreathing of all exhaled gases, except carbon dioxide which is absorbed; gas flow into the anaesthetic circuit consists only of oxygen, in amounts equal to the patient's metabolic consumption, plus small amounts of other gases (e.g., nitrous oxide) which undergo continued uptake by and distribution in the patient. (05 Mar 2000) |
| compression anaesthesia | Loss of sensation produced by pressure applied to a nerve. Synonym: compression anaesthesia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| conduction anaesthesia | Regional anaesthesia in which local anaesthetic solution is injected about nerves to inhibit nerve transmission; includes spinal, epidural, nerve block, and field block anaesthesia, but not local or topical anaesthesia. Synonym: block anaesthesia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| continuous epidural anaesthesia | Insertion of a catheter into the lumbar or caudal epidural space for the repeated injection of local anaesthetic solutions as a means of prolonging duration of anaesthesia. Synonym: fractional epidural anaesthesia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| continuous spinal anaesthesia | Insertion of a catheter into the spinal subarachnoid space and leaving it in situ to permit serial intermittent injection of local anaesthetic solution for prolonged spinal anaesthesia. Synonym: fractional spinal anaesthesia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| crossed anaesthesia | Anaesthesia of one side of the head and the other side of the body due to a brainstem lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| presacral anaesthesia | Injection of local anaesthetic solution anterior to the sacrum, to block nerves as they exit from the sacral foramina. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sacral anaesthesia | Regional anaesthesia limited to those areas innervated by sacral sensory nerves. (05 Mar 2000) |