ALL meanings of anesthesia
an·es·the·sia
A a - noun anesthesia a partial or total loss of the sense of pain, temperature, touch, etc., produced by disease 3
- noun anesthesia a loss of sensation induced by an anesthetic, hypnosis, or acupuncture and limited to a specific area (local anesthesia) or involving a loss of consciousness (general anesthesia) 3
- noun anesthesia Medicine/Medical. general 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. 1
- noun anesthesia Pathology. general loss of the senses of feeling, as pain, heat, cold, touch, and other less common varieties of sensation. 1
- noun anesthesia Psychiatry. absence of sensation due to psychological processes, as in conversion disorders. 1
- noun anesthesia Insensitivity to pain, especially as artificially induced by the administration of gases or the injection of drugs before surgical operations. 1
- noun anesthesia sth that numbs feeling 1
- noun anesthesia sth that induces unconsciousness 1
- noun anesthesia (American, medicine) A method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain. 0
- noun anesthesia The loss or prevention of pain, as caused by anesthesia. 0