Crossword clues for anaesthesia
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anaesthesia \An`[ae]s*the"si*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?; 'an priv. + ? feeling, ? to feel: cf. F. anesth['e]sie. See [AE]sthetics.] (Med.) Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an an[ae]sthetic. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1721, "loss of feeling," Modern Latin, from Greek anaisthesia "want of feeling, lack of sensation (to pleasure or pain)," from an- "without" (see an- (1)) + aisthesis "feeling," from PIE root *au- "to perceive" (see audience). As "a procedure for the prevention of pain in surgical operations," from 1846.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context British spelling medicine English) A method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain. 2 Loss or prevention of pain, as caused by anesthesia.
WordNet
n. loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness [syn: anesthesia]
Wikipedia
Anaesthesia is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering research in anaesthesiology. It is the official journal of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal 2012 impact factor is 3.486, ranking it fourth out of 29 journals in the category "Anesthesiology".
Usage examples of "anaesthesia".
ANAESTHESIA IS NOT ALWAYS PUSHED TO A SUFFICIENT EXTENT, as these animals often die from the effects of the anaesthetic if given to a full extent.
How many of the 148 animals died because the anaesthesia was TOO DEEP?
In the discovery of anaesthesia, general and local, painful experiment on animals has played no indispensable part whatever.
In the control experiments, as well as this, THE DOG WAS NOT UNDER FULL ANAESTHESIA .
In this and in preceding experiments with the hot saline, the animal, THOUGH UNDER SURGICAL ANAESTHESIA, STRUGGLED.
The instauration of general anaesthesia came from experiments made on man alone.
Painful experiments have played no indispensible part in the discovery of anaesthesia.
The chicks survive the operation and the anaesthesia well, and once they come round, the birds with IMHV or LPO lesions seem quite normal, indistinguishable from sham-operated or normal controls.
Not only did they precede us by more than two hundred million years, but termites had air-conditioning before we had houses and wasps could paralyse their prey before we had anaesthesia.
Then he told Anaesthesia that she was taking the Upworlder to the market, and that, yes, it was an order.
When he tried to talk to Anaesthesia about the movements, she hissed him to silence.
A late-night couple, who had been slowly walking along the Embankment toward them, holding hands, sat down in the middle of the bench, between Richard and Anaesthesia, and commenced to kiss each other, passionately.
Richard to Anaesthesia, feeling that the bench had started to become a less desirable neighborhood.
He held the quartz bead so tightly it hurt his hand, thinking of the pride with which Anaesthesia had shown it to him, of how fond he had become of her in the handful of hours that he had known her.
He thought of Lamia, and Hunter, and Anaesthesia, and even Door, but none of them were someones in the way that she meant.