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anaesthesia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun anaesthesia has 1 sense
- anaesthesia(n = noun.state) anesthesia - loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness; Array has particulars: cryoanaesthesia, cryoanesthesia, general anaesthesia, general anesthesia, local anaesthesia, local anesthesia, block anaesthesia, block anesthesia, conduction anaesthesia, conduction anesthesia, nerve block anaesthesia, nerve block anesthesia, regional anaesthesia, regional anesthesia, topical anaesthesia, topical anesthesia
is a kind of physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state
Derived forms adjective anaesthetic2, noun anaesthetist1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
anaesthesia, n. (US anesthesia) the absence of sensation, esp. artificially induced insensitivity to pain usu. achieved by the administration of gases or the injection of drugs.
Derivative
anaesthesiology n.
Etymology
mod.L f. Gk anaisthesia (as AN-(1), aisthesis sensation)
ROGET THESAURUS
anaesthesia
Physical Insensibility
N insensibility, physical insensibility, obtuseness, palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia, anaesthesia, sleep, hemiplegia, motor paralysis, vegetable state, coma, anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral, nitrous oxide, laughing gas, exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen, refrigeration, insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient, callous, thick- skinned, pachydermatous, hard, hardened, case hardened, proof, obtuse, dull, anaesthetic, comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.Numbness
N numbness, anaesthesia, pins and needles, numb, benumbed, deadened, intangible, impalpable, (2) Heat.
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