anesthesia

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

anesthesiasanaesthesiaanæsthesia

1.
(Canada, US, countable, uncountable)(medicine, American spelling, Canadian spelling) An artificial method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain without causing loss of vital functions, by the administration of one or more agents which block pain impulses before transmitted to the brain.
2.
(US, countable, uncountable)(American spelling) The loss or prevention of sensation, as caused by anesthesia (in the above sense), or by a lesion in the nervous system, or by another physical abnormality.
3.
(broadly, countable, metonymically, often, proscribed, uncountable)(loosely, metonymic, often proscribed) A medication that provides the service of temporarily blocking sensation.
Đồng nghĩa: anesthetic

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Đồng nghĩa

anesthetic

Trái nghĩa

aesthesia

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Nguồn gốc từ

Sense of “insensibility” attested since 1679, from anaesthēsia, from Ancient Greek ἀναισθησία (without sensation), from ἀν- (not) and αἴσθησις (sensation). an-.