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noun

Medicine/Medical. general or local insensibility, as to pain and other sensation, induced by certain interventions or drugs to permit the performance of surgery or other painful procedures.

Pathology. general loss of the senses of feeling, as pain, heat, cold, touch, and other less common varieties of sensation.

Psychiatry. absence of sensation due to psychological processes, as in conversion disorders.

Also, anaesthesia.

Origin:
1715–25; < Neo-Latin < Greek anaisthēsía want of feeling. See an-¹, esthesia

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a bone in the human leg extending from the pelvis to the knee, that is the longest, largest, and strongest in the body; thighbone.

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Readers respond to an editorial about proper anesthesia care.

Awake surgery is cosmetic surgery without general anesthesia.

Short term anesthesia at the expense of long term suffering.

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Readers respond to an editorial about proper anesthesia care.

Awake surgery is cosmetic surgery without general anesthesia.

Short term anesthesia at the expense of long term suffering.

Gases used in surgical anesthesia contribute the greenhouse gas equivalent of a million cars.

The doctor performed vivi-section on my great uncle's arms without anesthesia.

If so, cocaine might solve the problem of local anesthesia.

For minor surgical procedures, it does the trick without resorting to the carefully controlled coma of general anesthesia.

Prior experience working with nurse anesthesia students.

Anesthesia was limited to ether, and blood transfusions had not been invented yet.

The condition develops in part because anesthesia reduces the body's ability to control its own temperature.

Both pandas are recovered now from the anesthesia and they're both out moving around their yards.

The innovation was soon widely adopted, resulting in a major drop in the death rate from anesthesia.

Most patients receive general anesthesia for testicular torsion repair surgery.

Like having your wisdom teeth pulled without anesthesia.

Surgery these days is indeed safer than ever before but cannot be disconnected from its inherent risks, including anesthesia.

We put the person on general anesthesia and open up the skin through one or more incisions in the penis.

Another time she self-mutilated her left thumb while coming out of anesthesia.

There may be a family history of malignant hyperthermia or unexplained death during anesthesia.

The original meaning of vivisection referred to dissection of living animals without anesthesia.

The researchers then observed their hearts beating while they were alive and without anesthesia.

It was not the first such use, but it began a train of events leading to the widespread adoption of ether for surgical anesthesia.

Children will usually receive general anesthesia for the procedure.

Breathing tubes are stuck down their throats, and drip tubes deliver anesthesia through veins in their wrists.

If you are donating a kidney, you will be placed under general anesthesia before surgery.

Nobody rejects pasteurized milk or dental anesthesia or central heating because it's unnatural.

Most surgical procedures for rectal prolapse are done under general anesthesia.

General anesthesia is used, unless the situation is critical.

Ankle replacement surgery may be done while you are under general anesthesia.

The health care provider will usually numb the penis with local anesthesia before the procedure starts.

General anesthesia and will be asleep and unable to feel pain.

Hemorrhoid surgery is often done in an outpatient clinic or your doctor's office, with little or no anesthesia.

Your child will be given general anesthesia before surgery.

Before surgery, your baby will receive general anesthesia.

Before your surgery you will receive general anesthesia.

MediSys rebuffed that request, saying it was up to the anesthesia group to make its own insurance arrangements.

Study shows that anesthesia actually increases post-surgery pain.

Surgical patients may have fewer problems with anesthesia if the operation is scheduled early in the morning.

Every day essentially, when patients go under general anesthesia that whole state is a reversible coma.

The kind of anesthesia you receive will depend on what artery is being treated.

When the anesthesia wore off, the scientists asked the patients to remember who they saw.

The chip, which is slightly larger than a grain of rice, is inserted under local anesthesia during a quick outpatient procedure.

Removal of implanted devices requires another surgical procedure using general anesthesia.

The brain of a patient under anesthesia continues to operate actively, but without a conscious mind at work.

Halsted also pioneered in developing regional anesthesia by injecting cocaine into his nerves.

Some patient may receive regional anesthesia instead.

Then he implanted the device into rats in which he had severed their nerves under anesthesia.

For older or sicker patients, epidural or spinal anesthesia may be used.

In that case, local anesthesia is injected into the area to reduce the.

Most patients receive general anesthesia before septoplasty.

The procedure might resemble the method used for a patient undergoing anesthesia before surgery.

The infections were caused, they said, by the reuse of anesthesia syringes among multiple patients.

Rarely, the surgery may be done with local anesthesia and medicine to relax you.

Chest tubes are usually placed during major lung or heart surgery while the person is under general anesthesia.

But as anesthesia techniques improved, the danger receded.

During the extraction procedure itself, the donor is put under general anesthesia.

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World English Dictionary

anaesthesia or (US) anesthesia (ˌænɪsˈθiːzɪə)

—n
1.	local or general loss of bodily sensation, esp of touch, as the result of nerve damage or other abnormality
2.	loss of sensation, esp of pain, induced by drugs: called general anaesthesia when consciousness is lost and local anaesthesia when only a specific area of the body is involved
3.	a general dullness or lack of feeling

[C19: from New Latin, from Greek anaisthēsia absence of sensation, from an- + aisthēsis feeling]

anesthesia or (US) anesthesia

—n

[C19: from New Latin, from Greek anaisthēsia absence of sensation, from an- + aisthēsis feeling]

anesthesia (ˌænɪsˈθiːzɪə)

—n
	the usual US spelling of anaesthesia

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Word Origin & History

anesthesia

alt. spelling of anaesthesia (q.v.). See ae.

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Medical Dictionary

anesthesia an·es·the·sia (ān'ĭs-thē'zhə)
n.

Total or partial loss of sensation, especially tactile sensibility, induced by disease, injury, acupuncture, or an anesthetic.
Local or general insensibility to pain with or without the loss of consciousness, induced by an anesthetic.

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Science Dictionary

anesthesia

(ān'ĭs-thē'zhə) Pronunciation Key
Total or partial loss of sensation to touch or pain, caused by nerve injury or disease, or induced intentionally, especially by the administration of anesthetic drugs, to provide Medical treatment. The first public use of ether to anesthetize a patient in Boston in 1846 initiated widespread acceptance of anesthetics in the Western world for surgical procedures and obstetrics. General anesthesia, administered as inhalation or intravenous agents, acts primarily on the brain, resulting in a temporary loss of consciousness. Regional or local anesthesia affects sensation in a specific anatomic area, and includes topical application of local anesthetics, blocking of peripheral nerves, spinal anesthesia, and epidural anesthesia, which is used commonly during childbirth.

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Cultural Dictionary

anesthesia [(an-is-thee-zhuh)]

Loss of sensation or consciousness. Anesthesia can be induced by an anesthetic, by acupuncture, or as the result of injury or disease.

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