† anaesthesisn.
/ænɪsˈθiːsɪs/Etymology: < anaesthesia n., after Greek αἴσθησις, æsthesis.
Obs. rare.
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1848 Sir J. Simpson in VII. 516 The brief period which elapses before the state of complete anæsthesis is induced.
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