Usually means: Anesthesia injected near spinal cord.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. epidural: Merriam-Webster
  2. epidural: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. epidural: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. epidural: Collins English Dictionary
  5. epidural: Vocabulary.com
  6. Epidural, epidural: Wordnik
  7. epidural: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. epidural: Wiktionary
  9. epidural: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. epidural: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. epidural: Dictionary.com
  12. Epidural (disambiguation), Epidural: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. epidural: Rhymezone
  14. epidural: FreeDictionary.org
  15. epidural: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. epidural: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. epidural: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. epidural: Encyclopedia

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. epidural: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Epidural: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  8. Pregnancy & Baby (No longer online)
  9. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  10. epidural: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  11. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  12. epidural: Medical dictionary
  13. Epidural: Drug Medical Dictionary
  14. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. epidural: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See epidurals as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (anatomy, relational) Situated on or outside the dura mater.
adjective:  (medicine, relational) Of or pertaining to the space immediately outside the dura mater.
noun:  (medicine) An injection of anaesthetic into the epidural space of the spine, especially associated with pain relief during childbirth.

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