ANAESTHESIA meaning: Loss of sensation, pain relief

We found 31 dictionaries that define the word anaesthesia:

General (23 matching dictionaries)

anaesthesia: Merriam-Webster
anaesthesia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
anaesthesia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
anaesthesia: Collins English Dictionary
anaesthesia: Vocabulary.com
Anaesthesia, anaesthesia: Wordnik
anaesthesia: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
anaesthesia: Wiktionary
anaesthesia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
anaesthesia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
anaesthesia: Infoplease Dictionary
Anaesthesia, anaesthesia: Dictionary.com
Anaesthesia (journal), Anaesthesia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Anaesthesia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
anaesthesia: Rhymezone
Anaesthesia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
anaesthesia: FreeDictionary.org
anaesthesia: Mnemonic Dictionary
anaesthesia: TheFreeDictionary.com
anaesthesia: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
anaesthesia: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

anaesthesia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)

anaesthesia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Anaesthesia: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
Pregnancy & Baby (No longer online)
anaesthesia: Medical dictionary
Anaesthesia: Drug Medical Dictionary

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▸ noun: (British spelling) Alternative spelling of anesthesia [(medicine, American spelling, Canadian spelling) 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.]

Opposite:

consciousness, wakefulness, alertness

Types:

general anaesthesia, local anaesthesia, spinal anaesthesia, sedation, more...

Phrases:

general anaesthesia, local anaesthesia, Spinal anaesthesia, regional anaesthesia, epidural anaesthesia, more...

Adjectives:

general, local, spinal, regional, deep, complete, light, surgical, epidural, intravenous, topical

Colors:

pale blue, light gray, soft white, mint green, lavender, more...

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