Anaesthesia Definition

anəsthēshə
noun

Anesthesia.

Webster's New World
The definition of anaesthesia is a condition where a person is not aware of pain, touch or temperature or anything that comes into contact with his body and the person may or may not be conscious during that time.
A person undergoing major surgery is an example of a person who is in a state of anaesthesia.
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(medicine) A method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain.

Wiktionary
Loss or prevention of pain, as caused by anesthesia.
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Origin of Anaesthesia

  • Coined in 1846 CE by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., in a letter to dentist William T. G. Morton, the first practitioner to publicly demonstrate the use of ether during surgery, writing:

    From Wiktionary

  • an- +‎ aesthesia, from Ancient Greek ἀναισθησία (anaisthēsia), from ἀν- (an, “not”) with αἴσθησις (aisthēsis, “sensation”).

    From Wiktionary

Anaesthesia Sentence Examples

  • When a solution of the strength of about i in zo is applied to the skin it produces a local anaesthesia which lasts for many hours.

  • For the action and use of chloroform as an anaesthetic, see Anaesthesia.

  • But sooner or later peripheral neuritis develops, usually beginning with sensory disturbances, tingling, numbness, formication and occasionally cutaneous anaesthesia.

  • You shouldn't feel any labor pain once the anaesthesia takes effect.

  • Applied externally, ether evaporates very rapidly, producing such intense cold as to cause marked local anaesthesia.

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