Loss of physical sensation, insensibility; paralysis, numbness, deadness. Obsolete.

The process of rendering insensible; subjection to the action of anæsthetics.

anæsthetization of an area by the injection into it of a local anæsthetic.

Minimizing of operational shock by means of an anæsthetic routine introduced by the American surgeon G. W. Crile (1864–1943) in 1908.

administration of a light but long-acting anæsthetic which may be supplemented when necessary during an operation by a deeper short-acting…