Usually means: Inducing calmness, reducing anxiety, sleepiness.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. sedation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sedation: Merriam-Webster
  3. sedation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sedation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sedation: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sedation: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sedation, sedation: Wordnik
  8. sedation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sedation: Wiktionary
  10. sedation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sedation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sedation: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sedation: Dictionary.com
  14. sedation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Sedation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sedation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sedation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sedation: Rhymezone
  19. Sedation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sedation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sedation: FreeDictionary.org
  22. sedation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sedation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sedation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. sedation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. sedation: Medical dictionary
  5. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sedation)

▸ noun:  The act of sedating, especially by use of sedatives.

Similar:
drugging, seduction, anaesthetization, tranquillization, seatment, dementalization, downsitting, subjugation, session, silencing, more...

Opposite:
excitation, stimulation, arousal

Types:
general anesthesia, conscious sedation, regional anesthesia, local anesthesia, moderate sedation, deep sedation, procedural sedation, more...

Phrases:
conscious sedation, intravenous sedation, deep sedation, sedation points, Palliative sedation, more...

Adjectives:
conscious, intravenous, heavy, excessive, mild, deep, adequate, preoperative, daytime, less, moderate

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Similar:
drugging, seduction, anaesthetization, tranquillization, seatment, dementalization, downsitting, subjugation, session, silencing, more...

Opposite:
excitation, stimulation, arousal

Types:
general anesthesia, conscious sedation, regional anesthesia, local anesthesia, moderate sedation, deep sedation, procedural sedation, more...

Phrases:
conscious sedation, intravenous sedation, deep sedation, sedation points, Palliative sedation, opposite of sedation, more...

Adjectives:
conscious, intravenous, heavy, excessive, mild, deep, adequate, preoperative, daytime, less, moderate

Colors:
    pale blue,     lavender,     mint green,     light pink,     baby blue, more...



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