topical anesthesia

drug

Also known as: surface anesthesia

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In anesthetic: Local anesthetics
This is called surface or topical anesthesia. A familiar example of topical anesthesia is the use of certain local anesthetics in throat lozenges to relieve the pain of a sore throat. Local anesthetics may be injected near a main nerve trunk in a limb to produce what is called regional…
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In therapeutics: Local drug therapy
Topical anesthetics, a type of local anesthetic, are also used on the skin, in the eye’s conjunctiva and cornea, and in the mucous membranes of the nose, mouth, larynx, vagina, or urethra.
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