anesthesia
76
4.5
- noun
- /ˌænəsˈθiːziə/
- Specialized
:
anestesia
- The operation requires a stay of five days, and it is done under general anesthesia.
- general anesthesia
- local anesthesia
- administer anesthesia
You're a doctor and you punch someone who's under anesthesia.
- You're a doctor and you punch someone who's under anesthesia.
- So Pam is going into the surgery and she's put into the deepest state of anesthesia for for two hours.
- They will put me under anesthesia, remove any retained tissue that could potentially be cancerous and send it to pathology.
- You know, I like to invite them to next time they're having surgery to do it without anesthesia.
- And I was at the Queen's Medical Centre in the UK and I remember just being fascinated by states of consciousness and particularly anaesthesia.
- Like, I had no idea that general anesthesia can actually damage the brain.
- They IV you up, take you in, and they put you under general anesthesia and they also intubate you, which is putting a tube down your throat.
Examples
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A single surgeon performed the procedure under general anesthesia with a tourniquet.
Academic text (2015) -
All operations were performed under local anesthesia on an outpatient basis.
Academic text (2015) -
And then the additional cost was for the anesthesia in the operating room.
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Like, I had no idea that general anesthesia can actually damage the brain.
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All animals were placed under anesthesia twice a day for 1 hour each time.
Academic text (2011) -
A brain in a coma or under general anesthesia was not expected to remember anything.
Academic text (1990) -
The patient was administered topical anesthesia, and an attempt to remove the mass was undertaken.
Academic text (2008) -
All patients were operated on under general anesthesia in the lithotomy position with urinary catheterization.
Academic text (2012) -
The operation requires a stay of five days, and it is done under anesthesia to ensure the patient feels no pain.
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Virtually every surgery requires anesthesia, which allows the procedure to be performed safely without any discomfort.
Synonyms
Making a person or animal unable to feel pain before an operation
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
10
3.9
A medicine that makes someone completely unconscious so they do not feel pain during major surgery
- Specialized
3
4.4
A loss of feeling in a small part of the body after medicine numbs it
- Specialized
1
5.5
An injection in the lower back that makes the lower body numb for surgery
- Specialized
A way to make part of the body numb by putting medicine near a nerve
- Specialized
An injection of numbing medicine near the lower spine to make the lower body feel nothing for surgery
- Specialized
A way to numb part of the body by putting medicine near the nerve that carries feeling from that area
- Specialized
A way to stop pain in the lower body by putting medicine near the spine, often used during childbirth
- Archaic
Loss of feeling in the hand and wrist in a glove-like pattern not caused by a physical injury
- Specialized
A general medicine that doctors give as a gas you breathe to make you sleep during surgery
- Specialized
A way to numb one body part by injecting medicine near a nerve
- Specialized
A method that numbs the area that would touch a saddle by injecting medicine near the spine
- Specialized
Temporary numbness in a small area when someone puts numbing medicine on the skin or in the mouth
How Anesthetized
- Specialized
10
3.9
- Specialized
76
4.5
- Specialized
- Specialized
3
4.4
- Specialized
2
7.5
137
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
anesthesia = anesthetic (semi-transparent) = an + esthes + ia
Formed from the negative prefix 'an-' + the combining form 'esthes-' (sensation) and noun-forming '-ia'; the combining form is not a standalone common word, so meaning may not be immediately obvious to average learners.
Etymology
Anesthesia comes from Greek parts an- meaning 'without' and aisthesis meaning 'feeling', and it shares the root of aesthetic, a word about feeling or beauty. So anesthesia means 'without feeling', which explains why it makes part of the body numb or stops pain during operations.