sedation
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5.0
- noun
- /sɪˈdeɪʃən/
- Specialized
:
sedación
- I'll have to consider the possibility of putting you into sedation.
- intravenous sedation
- sedation and anesthesia
- level of sedation
It takes longer, We require more sedation.
- It takes longer, We require more sedation.
- And I mean, some clinics only do one, like I am not going to do a retrieval under no sedation.
Examples
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After what you put her through, I had to give her some sedation.
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We'll start a policy of evening sedation for everybody.
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We put her under sedation when she was brought in.
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While you were under sedation they ran a series of tests.
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I have seven different forms of sedation.
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Because we're gonna have to watch him for two days under sedation.
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The local doctor came, and she was put to bed under mild sedation.
Fiction book (1995) -
If the patient is uncooperative, sedation may be needed.
Academic text (2002) -
If he becomes unmanageable, we'll keep him under sedation.
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Before the surgery, the doctors ensured that she was under sedation to keep her calm.
Synonyms
To make someone calm with medicine
Antonyms
- Specialized
25
4.4
An action that makes a nerve or muscle respond often using electricity
How Sedated
- Specialized
10
3.9
- Specialized
11
5.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sedation comes from the Latin word sedare, 'to calm', and shares the root with sedate and sedative. So sedation can mean the act of calming someone with a drug, for example before or during a medical procedure.