Anesthesia

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  anaesthesia \an`[ae]s*the"si*a\, anesthesia
  \an`es*the"si*a\([a^]n`[e^]s*th[=e]"z[-e]*[.a] or
     [a^]n`[e^]s*th[=e]"zh[.a]), n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'anaisqhsi`a;
     'an priv. + a'i`sqhsis feeling, a'isqa`nesqai to feel: cf. F.
     anesth['e]sie. See {aesthetics}.] (Med.)
     Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a


     state of general or local insensibility produced by disease
     or by the inhalation or application of an anaesthetic. AS
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Anesthesia \An`es*the"si*a\, n., Anesthetic \An`es*thet"ic\, a.
     Same as {An[ae]sthesia}, {An[ae]sthetic}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  anesthesia
       n : loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of
           consciousness [syn: {anaesthesia}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  100 Moby Thesaurus words for "anesthesia":
     abatement, allayment, alleviation, analgesia, anesthetizing,
     anxiety equivalent, appeasement, assuagement, autism, callousness,
     catatonia, chill, chilliness, cold blood, cold heart,
     coldheartedness, coldness, coolness, deadening, deadness, deadpan,
     depraved appetite, diminishment, diminution, dispassion,
     dispassionateness, dulling, dullness, ease, easement, easing,
     electronarcosis, emotional deadness, emotionlessness, frigidity,
     frostiness, heartlessness, iciness, immovability, impassibility,
     impassiveness, impassivity, imperception, imperceptiveness,
     imperceptivity, impercipience, inconsiderateness, inexcitability,
     insensibility, insensibleness, insensitiveness, insensitivity,
     insentience, lack of affect, lack of feeling, lack of touch,
     lessening, lulling, mitigation, mollification, narcosis,
     narcotization, neurasthenia, numbing, numbness, objectivity,
     obtuseness, palliation, paresthesia, parorexia, passionlessness,
     pica, pins and needles, poker face, reduction, relief, remedy,
     salving, self-absorption, softening, soothing, soullessness,
     speech abnormality, spiritlessness, straight face, subduement,
     thick skin, unemotionalism, unexcitability, unfeeling,
     unfeelingness, unimpressibility, unimpressionableness,
     unpassionateness, unperceptiveness, unresponsiveness,
     unsusceptibility, unsympatheticness, untouchability, withdrawal