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1. (n.) anesthesia
general or localized insensibility, induced by drugs or other intervention and used in surgery or other painful procedures.
2. anesthesia
general loss of the senses of feeling, as pain, temperature, and touch.
Etymology: (1715–25; < NL < Gk anaisthēsía want of feeling. See an -1, esthesia)
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1. (noun) anesthesia, anaesthesia
loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness
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1. (adj) anesthesia
alt. of Anesthetic
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1. anesthesia
A state characterized by loss of feeling or sensation. This depression of nerve function is usually the result of pharmacologic action and is induced to allow performance of surgery or other painful procedures.
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