epidural

CEFRC2

/ɛp.ɪˈdjʊə.ɹəl/

noun · adjective

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01
noun
An injection near the spine that reduces pain.
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noun
Extra detail
An injection of anaesthetic into the epidural space of the spine, especially associated with pain relief during childbirth.

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Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

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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 they very nicely pointed out that the epidural doesn’t deal with that pain.
2014 December 5, Marina Hyde, “Childbirth is as awful as it is magical, thanks to our postnatal ‘care’”, in The Guardian
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 mom friends over the years. Most say their epidural was like a magic wand that eliminated their pain in minutes. Some recalled napping or watching a movie through most of labor.
2025 November 25, Jillian Pretzel, “I got an epidural for all three of my births – none of them worked as expected”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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From epi- + dural.