anesthesia

CEFRC1

/ˌæn.əsˈθiːz.i.ə/

noun

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  1. 01

    noun

    Medicine that prevents pain or feeling during a medical procedure.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A medication that provides the service of temporarily blocking sensation.

Examples

  • The hospital patient dropped off shortly after the doctor injected him with anesthesia.

  • The patient was placed under general anesthesia before the surgery began.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • /ˌæn.əsˈti.ʒə/
  • /ˌæn.əsˈθi.ʒə/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

More examples

In context

  • He was put under anesthesia.

  • In addition, 0.5 ml of 1% lidocaine HCl was injected subcutaneously in the postauricular area for local anesthesia.

  • In some individuals optimism may become quasi-pathological. The capacity for even a transient sadness or a momentary humility seems cut off from them as by a kind of congenital anæsthesia.

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Origin

noun

Sense of “insensibility” attested since 1679, from New Latin anaesthēsia, from Ancient Greek ἀναισθησία (anaisthēsía, “without sensation”), from ἀν- (an-, “not”) and αἴσθησις (aísthēsis, “sensation”). By surface analysis, an- + -esthesia. Sense of “state induced by an agent” attested since 1846.