Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
anæsthesia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
anæsthesia .
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Examples
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But I could not well believe this, as I could feel my heart pounding against my ribs from the exertion of my efforts to release myself from the anaesthesis which had held me.
A Princess of Mars 1912
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But I could not well believe this, as I could feel my heart pounding against my ribs from the exertion of my efforts to release myself from the anaesthesis which had held me.
A Princess of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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But at the moment of recovery from anaesthesis, just then, BEFORE STARTING ON
Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876
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She laid herself down without a moment's hesitation, and as she did so Doctor Angier, according to previous arrangement, presented a sponge saturated with ether to her nostrils, and in two minutes complete anaesthesis was produced.
Danger 1847
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In a state of anaesthesis, it would obey or command a calculable program without affect or auto-affection, like an indifferent automaton” (Without Alibi, p. 73).
Jacques Derrida Lawlor, Leonard 2006
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