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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024an•es•the•sia or an•aes•the•sia /ˌænəsˈθiʒə/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- loss of sensation in the whole body or in certain areas:drugs that induce anesthesia in surgical patients.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024an•es•the•sia (an′əs thē′zhə),USA pronunciation n. - Medicinegeneral or local insensibility, as to pain and other sensation, induced by certain interventions or drugs to permit the performance of surgery or other painful procedures.
- Pathologygeneral loss of the senses of feeling, as pain, heat, cold, touch, and other less common varieties of sensation.
- Psychiatryabsence of sensation due to psychological processes, as in conversion disorders.
Also, anaesthesia. - Greek anaisthēsía want of feeling. See an-1, esthesia
- Neo-Latin
- 1715–25
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: anesthesia /ˌænɪsˈθiːzɪə/ n - the usual US spelling of anaesthesia
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024an•aes•the•sia /ˌænəsˈθiʒə/USA pronunciation n. - Medicine, Pathology anesthesia.
an•aes•thet•ic /ˌænəsˈθɛtɪk/USA pronunciation n. [countable], adj. an•aes•the•tist /əˈnɛsθɪtɪst/USA pronunciation n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024an•aes•the•sia (an′əs thē′zhə),USA pronunciation n. [Med., Pathol.]- Medicine, Pathologyanesthesia.
an•aes•thet•ic (an′əs thet′ik),USA pronunciation adj., n. an•aes•the•tist (ə nes′thi tist or, esp. Brit., ə nēs′-),USA pronunciation n. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: anaesthesia, US anesthesia /ˌænɪsˈθiːzɪə/ n - local or general loss of bodily sensation, esp of touch, as the result of nerve damage or other abnormality
- loss of sensation, esp of pain, induced by drugs: called general anaesthesia when consciousness is lost and local anaesthesia when only a specific area of the body is involved
Etymology: 19th Century: from New Latin, from Greek anaisthēsia absence of sensation, from an- + aisthēsis feeling |