Anesthesia

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Total or partial loss of sensation, especially tactile sensibility, induced by disease, injury, acupuncture, or an anesthetic, such as chloroform or nitrous oxide.
  • n. Local or general insensibility to pain with or without the loss of consciousness, induced by an anesthetic.
  • n. A drug, administered for medical or surgical purposes, that induces partial or total loss of sensation and may be topical, local, regional, or general, depending on the method of administration and area of the body affected.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain.
  • n. The loss or prevention of pain, as caused by anesthesia.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Same as anæsthesia, anæsthetic.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. See anæsthesia.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness
    • Equivalent
    anesthetic   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    physiological state    physical condition    physiological condition   
    Variant
    anæsthesia    anæsthetic   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Elysia    Indonesia    Magnesia    Micronesia    Polynesia   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    anesthetic    sedation    analgesia    anæsthetic    anæsthesia   
     
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