Usually means: Loss of sensation, pain relief.
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  1. anesthesia: Merriam-Webster
  2. anesthesia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anesthesia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anesthesia: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Anesthesia, anesthesia: Wordnik
  7. anesthesia: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. anesthesia: Wiktionary
  9. anesthesia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  14. anesthesia: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  22. anesthesia: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Definitions from Wiktionary (anesthesia)

▸ noun:  (medicine, American spelling, Canadian spelling) An artificial method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain without causing loss of vital functions, by the administration of one or more agents which block pain impulses before transmitted to the brain.
▸ noun:  (American spelling) The loss or prevention of sensation, as caused by anesthesia (in the above sense), or by a lesion in the nervous system, or by another physical abnormality.
▸ noun:  (loosely, metonymically, often proscribed) A medication that provides the service of temporarily blocking sensation.

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anaesthesia, anesthetic, anesthetization, antianaesthetic, general anesthetic, analgesia, antianesthetic, anesthetizer, local anesthetic, anodyne, more...

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sensation, awareness, feeling, perception, responsiveness

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general anesthesia, local anesthesia, regional anesthesia, spinal anesthesia, epidural anesthesia, conscious sedation, MAC anesthesia, more...

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general anesthesia, Local anesthesia, spinal anesthesia, regional anesthesia, epidural anesthesia, more...

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general, local, spinal, regional, topical, surgical, epidural, deep, light, intravenous, complete

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Similar:
anaesthesia, anesthetic, anesthetization, antianaesthetic, general anesthetic, analgesia, antianesthetic, anesthetizer, local anesthetic, anodyne, more...

Opposite:
sensation, awareness, feeling, perception, responsiveness

Types:
general anesthesia, local anesthesia, regional anesthesia, spinal anesthesia, epidural anesthesia, conscious sedation, MAC anesthesia, more...

Phrases:
general anesthesia, Local anesthesia, spinal anesthesia, regional anesthesia, epidural anesthesia, topical anesthesia, surgical anesthesia, inhalation anesthesia, block anesthesia, obstetric anesthesia, more...

Adjectives:
general, local, spinal, regional, topical, surgical, epidural, deep, light, intravenous, complete

Colors:
    pale blue,     light green,     muted lavender,     pastel pink,     light coral, more...



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