epidural
UK/ɛp.ɪˈdjʊə.ɹəl//ɛp.əˈd(j)ʊɹ.əl/
epidural adjective: situated on or outside the dura mater.
Adjective
epidural (comparative more epidural, superlative most epidural)
- Situated on or outside the dura mater.
- Synonyms:
- extradural, peridural
- Of or pertaining to the space immediately outside the dura mater.
- Epidural anesthesia is commonly used for pain relief during childbirth.
Noun
epidural (plural epidurals)
- An injection of anaesthetic into the epidural space of the spine, especially associated with pain relief during childbirth.
- 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...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
epidural meaning in Tamil and Indonesian
epidural in Tamil
- வால் பகுதித் தண்டுவடம், கடினஉறைமேவு
epidural in Indonesian
- situated on or outside the dura mater
- epidural
- anaesthetic
- epidural
Synonyms of epidural
Forms of epidural
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more epidural |
| superlative | most epidural |
| Noun | |
| plural | epidurals |
Origin of epidural
From epi- + dural.
Words formed from epidural
- epidurally
- epiduro-
- nonepidural
- postepidural
Words that rhyme with epidural
- plural
- anural
- crural
- epipleural
- extramural
- intramural
- jural
- mural
- neural
- pleural
- bronchopleural
- caesural
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- caricatural
- cesural
- commissural
- cynosural
- duoplural
- dural
- extradural
- extrapleural
- interpleural
- intradural
- intrapleural
- juxtapleural
- macrural
- myodural
- myoneural
- nomenclatural
- nonepidural
- nonneural
- nonrural
- peridural
- photomural
- postdural
- procural
- rural
- semirural
- sensorineural
- splanchnopleural
- sternopleural
- subdural
- subpleural
- superplural
- sural
- transdural
- transpleural
- Ural
- zygopleural
Questions about epidural
- What does epidural mean?
- Epidural means situated on or outside the dura mater.
- What is epidural in Tamil?
- Epidural in Tamil is வால் பகுதித் தண்டுவடம், கடினஉறைமேவு. See Epidural meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is epidural?
- Epidural can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce epidural?
- Epidural is pronounced /ɛp.ɪˈdjʊə.ɹəl/ (UK).
Words near epidural in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: epidural (page history and authors); epidural (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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