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  • adjective Alternative spelling of anesthetized.

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Examples

  • The tenants like to have their food drugged, or be anesthetised with ether.

    Mosquitoes and Eggs 2008

  • We have become anesthetised to their condition and feel little remorse as we rush about our busy lives.

    What Do The Homeless Deserve? Renee 2009

  • We have become anesthetised to their condition and feel little remorse as we rush about our busy lives.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Renee 2009

  • Studies have shown that children exposed to excessive TV become anesthetised to suffering and violence, both on the Boob Tube and beyond it.

    One activist's prescription for mental health 2008

  • This means that the girl is probably anesthetised rather than being forceably held down, and will be less subject to the risk of infection.

    Britain Under-Attack Lionheart 2007

  • In humans, some nerves remain unmyelinated, and those holdovers from early evolutionary time can't be anesthetised.

    Stem cells, Part 1, Introduction and Ethics 2007

  • In humans, some nerves remain unmyelinated, and those holdovers from early evolutionary time can't be anesthetised.

    Stem cells, Part 1, Introduction and Ethics 2007

  • · Puncture through the anesthetised bubble, asking the patient to cough.

    Chapter 7 1989

  • But with inhalation surgery we suddenly started seeing birds die, as the bird remains anesthetised too long (while the ever-present IACUC vet is slowly checking every step and talking through it) and the dosage of anesthetic is tricky.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • When I just started in 1994, we did surgeries on a lab desk, the anesthetised bird secured to the desk with masking tape, we cleaned our tools with alcohol swabs, and had never had any infections or other problems - the birds 'immune system is just too strong for such stuff to occur.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

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