anesthesia

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness

   The patient suffered from anaesthesia.

Common collocations

• regional anesthesia Adjective + noun

Sense of “insensibility” attested since 1679, from New Latin anaesthēsia, from Ancient Greek ἀναισθησία (anaisthēsía, “without sensation”), from ἀν- (an-, “not”) and αἴσθησις (aísthēsis, “sensation”). By surface analysis, an- + -esthesia. Sense of “state induced by an agent” attested since 1846.

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