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Word: Anaesthesia
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
early 18th century: modern Latin, from Greek anaisthēsia, from an- ‘without’ + aisthēsis ‘sensation’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˌanɪsˈθiːzɪə
Dialects: British English
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˌanɪsˈθiːʒə
Dialects: British English
Definition:
insensitivity to pain, especially as artificially induced by the administration of gases or the injection of drugs before surgical operations
Short Definition:insensitivity to pain induced before surgical operations
Examples:- during anaesthesia body temperature falls due to the effect of drugs
- modern clinical anaesthesia uses low concentrations of volatile anaesthetics
Variant Forms:
- anesthesia
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