Epidural anesthesia is sometimes used in late first-stage labor and during delivery in order to block sensation in an area of the body or to block consciousness
Explanation:
Epidural anesthesia blocks pain in a particular region of the body. The reason for epidural anasthesia is to provide analgesia (pain relief) rather than anesthesia (total lack of feeling). Epidurals is a regional anesthesia that works by blocking the nerve impulses from the lower spinal segments.
Mitochondria are considered as the powerhouse of cell because they perform function cellular respiration process in a cell.
Cellular respiration is a process of converting the chemical energy present in nutrients into ATP which gives energy to organisms to carry out movement and physical actions.
Mitochondria performs cellular respiration process from which they can release energy present in food and nutrients.
Due to those reasons, mitochondria is called as powerhouse of cell.