anaesthesis

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   loss or absence of bodily sensation; insensibility

   As feeling gradually returned, he emerged from the strange anaesthesis that had immobilized him.

A rare medical noun formed from an- ("without") + -aesthesis ("sensation"), both ultimately Greek-derived. It is used as another name for anaesthesia; the spelling anesthesis also occurs.

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