Look up: anaesthesia

1. Anaesthesia
   A dangerous time for people with sleep apnoea. The anaesthetic drugs, pre-medication sedatives and post operative pain relief drugs can all worsen sleep apnoea.
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2. Anaesthesia
   a loss of sensation in a certain part of the body or throughout the body
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3. Anaesthesia
   A partial (local) or total (general) loss of feeling or sensation
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4. Anaesthesia
   The total or partial loss of sensation, especially in relation to pain.
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5. Anaesthesia
   absence of sensation (general anaesthesia refers to a state of drug-induced loss of consciousness)
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6. Anaesthesia
   Anaesthesia: See: Anesthesia.
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7. anaesthesia
   Insensibility, lack of feeling, of pain or touch, as when a nerve is cut, or in the limbs below the level of fractured spine; 2)In medicine and surgery, the international induction of a state of painlessness induced by medication for the purpose of carrying out an otherwise painful operation. Such a...
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8. anaesthesia
   <anaesthetics, neurology> The loss of feeling or sensation. Although the term is used for loss of tactile sensibility or of any of the other senses, it is applied especially to loss of the sensation of pain, as it is induced to permit performance of surgery or other painful procedures. ... Ori...
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9. Anaesthesia
   • (n.) 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.
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10. anaesthesia
    (an neg. + Gr. aisthsis sensation) loss of feeling or sensation. Although the term is used for loss of tactile sensibility, or of any of the other senses, it is applied especially to loss of the sensation of pain, as it is induced to permit performance of surgery or other painful procedures.
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11. anaesthesia
    anaesthesia, anesthesia A partial or total loss of the sense of pain, temperature, touch, etc.; that may be produced by disease or an anesthetic. Local anaesthesia affects a limited area of the body; as opposed to general anaesthesia, which impacts the whole body. Although the term is used for loss ...
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12. Anaesthesia
    Anaesthesia or anaesthesis is a state of insensibility to pain, formerly produced by inhaling chloroform, now by the application of other anaesthetic agents, such as morphine.
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13. anaesthesia
    Greek an = negative, and aisthesis = sensation, hence, loss of sensation; adjective - anaesthetic.
    Found on http://www.anatomy.usyd.edu.au/glossary/
    
    
14. Anaesthesia
    (journal) `Anaesthesia` is the official journal of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. It is a peer-reviewed medical journal and is published monthly. Impact : According to the 2008 Journal Citation Reports the journal has an impact factor of 2.178, ranking i...
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