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relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area; "local taxes"; "local authorities" public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops; "the local seemed to take forever to get to New York" of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood; "local customs"; "local schools"; "the local citizens"; "a local point of view"; "local outbreaks of flu"; "a local bus line" local anesthetic: anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body affecting only a restricted part or area of the body; "local anesthesia"
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| local anesthesia |
loss of sensation in a small area of the body (as when a local anesthetic is injected for a tooth extraction)
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| localization |
a determination of the place where something is; "he got a good fix on the target" localization of function: (physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body
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| local cause |
one that is not general or constitutional, but is confined to the site where the effect is produced.
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| local convulsion |
any minor spasm affecting only one muscle or one part or member, as in jacksonian epilepsy.
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