Meaning

3 senses
  1. (Canada, US, countable, uncountable)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.

    Anästhesie, Narkose, Betäubung

    анестези́яanɛstɛzíja, обезбо́ливаниеobezbólivanije

    анестезі́яanestezíja, знебо́люванняznebóljuvannja, обезбо́люванняobezbóljuvannja

  2. (US, countable, uncountable)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)A medication that provides the service of temporarily blocking sensation.

More definitions
  • loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness

Examples

15 sentences
  1. I'll give you anesthesia.

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  2. How did you get through anesthesia?

    Як ти переніс наркоз?

    deWie haben Sie die Narkose überstanden?

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  3. I'm afraid of general anesthesia.

    Я боюся наркозу.

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  4. Is it operation with using anesthesia?

    ruОперация с наркозом?

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  5. Boldi was operated on without anesthesia.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
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Русский
By meaning 1
loss of bodily sensation:
Deutsch
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Origin

Sense of “insensibility” attested since 1679, from New Latin anaesthēsia, from Ancient Gre

Sense of “insensibility” attested since 1679, from New Latin anaesthēsia, from Ancient Greek ἀναισθησία (anaisthēsía, “without sensation”), from ἀν- (an-, “not”) and αἴσθησις (aísthēsis, “sensation”). By surface analysis, an- + -esthesia.

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