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epidural anesthesia

injection of local anesthetic and/or opioids into the spinal canal without puncturing the dura mater
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Summary

epidural anesthesia ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,839 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • epidural anesthesia is a type of neuraxial anesthesia[2].
  • epidural anesthesia's Commons category is recorded as Epidural anaesthesia[3].
  • epidural anesthesia's facet of is recorded as women's health[4].
  • epidural anesthesia's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C15642[5].
  • epidural anesthesia's different from is recorded as epidural analgesia[6].
  • epidural anesthesia's uses is recorded as epidural injection[7].
  • epidural anesthesia's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as gender gap on Dutch Wikipedia[8].
  • epidural anesthesia's WordLift URL is recorded as http://data.medicalrecords.com/medicalrecords/healthwise/epidural_anesthesia[9].

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Definition and Type

epidural anesthesia is a type of neuraxial anesthesia[2].

Why It Matters

epidural anesthesia ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,839 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 58 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

Related Entities

women's health

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · BoneheadElsewhere · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → injection of local anesthetic and/or opioids into the spinal canal without punct
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  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Uses → —
    Uses → epidural injection
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007536192405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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