Definition of Anaesthesia

1. Noun. Loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness.


Definition of Anaesthesia

1. Noun. (medicine) A method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain. ¹

2. Noun. Loss or prevention of pain, as caused by anesthesia. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Anaesthesia

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Anaesthesia

1. The loss of feeling or sensation. Although the term is used for loss of tactile sensibility or of any of the other senses, it is applied especially to loss of the sensation of pain, as it is induced to permit performance of surgery or other painful procedures. Origin: Gr. Aisthesis = sensation (13 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anaesthesia

anaerobic threshold
anaerobically
anaerobicidal
anaerobicide
anaerobicides
anaerobies
anaerobioses
anaerobiosis
anaerobiotic
anaerobium
anaerogenic
anaerophyte
anaeroplasty
anaesthecinesia
anaesthekinesia
anaesthesia (current term)
anaesthesia adjuvants
anaesthesia dolorosa
anaesthesia machine
anaesthesia record
anaesthesia recovery period
anaesthesias
anaesthesiologist
anaesthesiologists
anaesthesiology
anaesthete
anaesthetic
anaesthetic(a)
anaesthetic agent
anaesthetic circuit

Literary usage of Anaesthesia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"Pain in inducing the anaesthesia is so slight that it need not be considered; it is caused principally by the initial entrance of the needle into the skin ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1874)
"However, this is not the point before us, as every one admits that a person in a state of complete anaesthesia may unconsciously be submitted to violence ..."

3. A Text-book of Practical Medicine: With Particular Reference to Physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1869)
"The action of continued cold induces anaesthesia of the skin. Part of this is undoubtedly due to the contractile power of cold upon the skin, ..."

4. A Treatise on Diseases of the Nervous System by William Alexander Hammond (1871)
"anaesthesia of peripheral origin in the cutaneous nerves is often accompanied ... Peripheral cutaneous anaesthesia may be produced by a variety of causes. ..."

5. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"anaesthesia IN THE FOWL By FTW JORDAN, J. SANFORD* and A. WRIGHT School of Veterinary Science, University of Liverpool INTRODUCTION anaesthesia of the ..."

6. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1905)
"In other parts the surgeon can generally leave the anaesthesia entirely to the responsibility of the administrator, although their co-operation is required ..."

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