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Local anesthesia

Known as: anesthetic local techniques, anesthesia local, Anesthesia, Local 
A temporary loss of feeling in one small area of the body caused by special drugs or other substances called anesthetics. The patient stays awake but… 
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Anesthesia proceduresLocal Anestheticsblock anesthesiahypalgesia

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Anesthesia, Conduction

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Anesthesia, InfiltrationCryoanesthesiaNeural Therapy of Huneketopical anesthesia

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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Ultrasound-guided percutaneous thermal ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma using microwave and radiofrequency ablation.
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000
Research into 'colonial' or 'imperial' medicine has made considerable progress in recent years, whilst the study of what is… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
A randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled study to investigate the use of conscious sedation in conjunction with paracervical block for reducing pain in termination of first trimester pregnancy…
BACKGROUND This study evaluated the role of conscious sedation in pain relief during termination of first trimester pregnancy by… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Detection of bronchial preneoplastic lesions and early lung cancer with fluorescence bronchoscopy: a study about its ambulatory feasibility under local anaesthesis.
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
The feasibility, safety and cost of infiltration anaesthesia for hernia repair
Data from 400 consecutive elective ambulatory operations for inguinal hernia under unmonitored local anaesthesia with limited pre… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Dependence and its relationship to depression.
Evidence is provided that dependence, either as a trait or a state, is closely related to depression. Theories to explain this… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
GENETIC VARIATION AMONG TYPHA POPULATIONS OF THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
AvISE, J. C., AND R. K. SELANDER. 1972. Evolutionary genetics of cave dwelling fishes of the genus Astyanax. Evolution 26:1-19… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Plasma progesterone levels in pregnant and pseudopregnant ferrets.
In the ferret, the life-span and growth of the CL is dependent on pituitary hormones. Hypophysectomy arrests the development of… 
Highly Cited
1970
Highly Cited
1970
Development of Brugia pahangi in the jird, Meriones unguiculatus, with notes on infections in other rodents.
Infective larvae of Brugia pahangi dissected from Armigeres subalbatus that had fed 8 to 9 days previously on an infected dog… 
Review
1961
Review
1961
Prenatal mortality in farm animals.
The division of prenatal development in farm animals into three periods, that of the ovum, that of the embryo and that of the… 
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