anæsthesia

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Loss of the sense of touch, as from paralysis or extreme cold; diminution or loss of the physical sense of feeling; specifically, a state of insensibility, especially to pain, produced by inhaling an anesthetic, as chloroform or ether, or by the application of other anesthetic agents. Also anesthesia, anæsthesis, anesthesis.
2. n. Same as medullary anæthesia.

Wiktionary

1. n. alternative spelling of anaesthesia.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anæsthetic.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness