OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 32165

epidural

/ɛp.ɪˈdjʊə.ɹəl/
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epidural
An injection of anaesthetic into the epidural space of the spine, especially associated with pain relief during childbirth.
During my third birth, the epidural provided a welcome numbing sensation on one side of my abdomen, but I still had sharp, intense pain on the other. […] I’ve talked to dozens of m…
For reasons I shan’t bore you with, I got them to induce me at 39 weeks, at 10am, with the epidural going in first, and it was all a dream. Until the baby went back to back and the…
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