anesthesia
n. (Pathology) lack of feeling, loss of sensation (caused by disease); (Medicine) localized or general reduction of sensitivity to pain (through drugs) | ||||
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Anesthesia Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Anesthesia
(a.)
Alt. of Anesthetic
(a.)
Alt. of Anesthetic
| WordNet 2.0 |
anesthesia
Noun
1. loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness
(synonym) anaesthesia
(hypernym) physiological state, physiological condition
(hyponym) cryoanesthesia, cryoanaesthesia
Noun
1. loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness
(synonym) anaesthesia
(hypernym) physiological state, physiological condition
(hyponym) cryoanesthesia, cryoanaesthesia
| hEnglish - advanced version |
anesthesia
anesthesia
\an`es*the"si*a\ (&?;), n., anesthetic \an`es*thet"ic\ (&?;), a. same as an?sthesia, an?sthetic.
similar words(4)
topical anesthesia
regional anesthesia
local anesthesia
inhalation anesthesia
anesthesia
\an`es*the"si*a\ (&?;), n., anesthetic \an`es*thet"ic\ (&?;), a. same as an?sthesia, an?sthetic.
similar words(4)
topical anesthesia
regional anesthesia
local anesthesia
inhalation anesthesia
Anesthesia Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries
| NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms |
anesthesia
[an-es-THEE-zha]
Drugs or substances that cause loss of feeling or awareness. Local anesthetics cause loss of feeling in a part of the body. General anesthetics put the person to sleep.
[an-es-THEE-zha]
Drugs or substances that cause loss of feeling or awareness. Local anesthetics cause loss of feeling in a part of the body. General anesthetics put the person to sleep.
| Dictionary of Medicine (Shahram) |
anesthesia
US = ANAESTHESIA
US = ANAESTHESIA
anaesthesia
anaesthesia or US noun
loss of the feeling of pain
epidural anaesthesia = local anaesthesia (used in childbirth) in which anaesthetic is injected into the space between the vertebral canal and the dura mater
general anaesthesia = loss of feeling and loss of consciousness
local anaesthesia = loss of feeling in a certain part of the body
spinal anaesthesia = local anaesthesia in which an anaesthetic is injected into the cerebrospinal fluid
| Hepatitis Central (TM) Liver Disease Medical Glossary |
Anesthesia
Loss of sensation in a certain part of the body or throughout the body
Loss of sensation in a certain part of the body or throughout the body
| Macular Degeneration Glossary |
Anesthesia
a drug-induced (anesthetic) decreased sensitivity to pain.
a drug-induced (anesthetic) decreased sensitivity to pain.
Anesthesia Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Anesthesia
Anesthesia [from Greek anaisthesia no feeling] Want of feeling; a condition of total or partial insensibility, particularly to touch. The many classical references to anesthetics indicate that the ancients knew much about the subject that has not been rediscovered. Blavatsky refers to the sacred beverage used by the hierophants in ceremonies to free the astral soul from the bonds of matter, so that the inner man might rise to the level of spirit (IU 2:117, 1:540).
Surgical patients suffering from fright and fear before or during the induction of an anesthetic take it with more difficulty, and feel more aftereffects, than those who meet it without anxiety. The first stage of general anesthesia, usually not unpleasant, ends with the loss of physical consciousness. Then begins the second, or stage of struggling more or less vigorously, evidently due to the automatic reaction of the physical body, from which its conscious astral soul is being dissociated. In the third stage, the muscles relax and the disturbed heart and lungs settle down to regular rhythm, controlled by the sympathetic nervous system, as in a deep, dreamless sleep. The self-conscious ego, thus withdrawing from its ordinary state of being, enters more or less deeply into the subjective realm of its inner life. It is in a state of what has been called, paradoxically, conscious unconsciousness. The danger here is that the soul may become so far separated from its body that it does not come back again, and then death results.
However insensible the person is of externals, he is conscious in some part of his composite nature, just as each principle of his being has its own range of awareness after death. Some people have brought back a more or less clear memory of a state of being transcending anything they had ever imagined on earth. Their first feeling is one of a delicious peace and liberation; then comes a mental clearness with majestic visions of perfect truth, and a realization of a self-existent "I" as a part of a universal whole. The spiritually-minded person may attain to an instant and complete buddhi-manasic vision of "things as they are." Such a one, at the moment of recovery, is often vividly sensible of being aroused from a state of superior existence, but is unable to recall what it was. Again, any gleams of knowledge that do survive the transit may be misinterpreted by the brain-mind from its preconceived philosophical or religious ideas. The average person, however, brings back little if any remembrance of his experience.
The anesthetized person may also be conscious of standing aside or looking down upon his own body under operation, and retains a vague memory of the out-of-body experience. See also SOMA
Anesthesia [from Greek anaisthesia no feeling] Want of feeling; a condition of total or partial insensibility, particularly to touch. The many classical references to anesthetics indicate that the ancients knew much about the subject that has not been rediscovered. Blavatsky refers to the sacred beverage used by the hierophants in ceremonies to free the astral soul from the bonds of matter, so that the inner man might rise to the level of spirit (IU 2:117, 1:540).
Surgical patients suffering from fright and fear before or during the induction of an anesthetic take it with more difficulty, and feel more aftereffects, than those who meet it without anxiety. The first stage of general anesthesia, usually not unpleasant, ends with the loss of physical consciousness. Then begins the second, or stage of struggling more or less vigorously, evidently due to the automatic reaction of the physical body, from which its conscious astral soul is being dissociated. In the third stage, the muscles relax and the disturbed heart and lungs settle down to regular rhythm, controlled by the sympathetic nervous system, as in a deep, dreamless sleep. The self-conscious ego, thus withdrawing from its ordinary state of being, enters more or less deeply into the subjective realm of its inner life. It is in a state of what has been called, paradoxically, conscious unconsciousness. The danger here is that the soul may become so far separated from its body that it does not come back again, and then death results.
However insensible the person is of externals, he is conscious in some part of his composite nature, just as each principle of his being has its own range of awareness after death. Some people have brought back a more or less clear memory of a state of being transcending anything they had ever imagined on earth. Their first feeling is one of a delicious peace and liberation; then comes a mental clearness with majestic visions of perfect truth, and a realization of a self-existent "I" as a part of a universal whole. The spiritually-minded person may attain to an instant and complete buddhi-manasic vision of "things as they are." Such a one, at the moment of recovery, is often vividly sensible of being aroused from a state of superior existence, but is unable to recall what it was. Again, any gleams of knowledge that do survive the transit may be misinterpreted by the brain-mind from its preconceived philosophical or religious ideas. The average person, however, brings back little if any remembrance of his experience.
The anesthetized person may also be conscious of standing aside or looking down upon his own body under operation, and retains a vague memory of the out-of-body experience. See also SOMA
Anesthesia Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia |
Anesthesia
Anesthesia or anaesthesia (see spelling differences; from Greek αν- an- “without” + αἲσθησις aisthesis “sensation”) has traditionally meant the condition of having the feeling of pain and other sensations blocked. This allows patients to undergo surgery and other procedures without the distress and pain they would otherwise experience. The word was coined by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. in 1846. Another definition is a "reversible lack of awareness", whether this is a total lack of awareness (e.g. a general anaesthestic) or a lack of awareness of a part of a the body such as a spinal anaesthetic or another nerve block would cause.
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