Definitions
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- noun medicine A method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate
pain . - noun Loss or prevention of pain, as caused by anesthesia.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Try to imagine that fear, the fear of being wounded before the word "anaesthesia" was coined.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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Try to imagine that fear, the fear of being wounded before the word "anaesthesia" was coined.
Battle scars 2009
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Poetry serves as a sort of "anaesthesia", keeping the body alive.
Lara's Theme 2007
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We are currently experiencing shortages in family practitioners, and in many of the specialties such as anaesthesia, obstetrics, paediatrics and psychiatry.
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It was almost more than I could bear, and I felt the coming on of that anaesthesia which is our refuge from the excess of moral sufferings as from those of the body.
The Diary of a French Army Chaplain Felix, Klein 1915
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Yet the vivisector would have us believe that in all cases of his "anaesthesia" the dog is unconscious.
An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals Albert Leffingwell 1880
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"anaesthesia" arises from ignorance of its innumerable degrees.
An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals Albert Leffingwell 1880
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Imagine, I had extra pages added to my passport just before moving here, so copying it is actually painful without anaesthesia, if you get my drift.
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Imagine, I had extra pages added to my passport just before moving here, so copying it is actually painful without anaesthesia, if you get my drift.
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Imagine, I had extra pages added to my passport just before moving here, so copying it is actually painful without anaesthesia, if you get my drift.
sionnach commented on the word anaesthesia
Sleepy pretender to the Romanoff throne. Older sister to Cynthia, also known as synesthesia.
April 28, 2008