basal anaesthesia

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preliminary and incomplete anaesthesia induced to prepare a surgical patient for total anaesthesia with another agent

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Words nearby basal anaesthesia

barytone, Barzun, B.A.S., basad, basal, basal anaesthesia, basal anesthesia, basal body, basal cell, basal cell carcinoma, basal cell nevus

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Coffee Consumption Associated with Decreased Risk for Basal-Cell Carcinoma.
Can Coffee Save Your Life?|Anneli Rufus|October 28, 2011|DAILY BEAST
It makes out of the savage raw material which is our basal mental stuff, a citizen.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The specimens from Honduras have a basal cusp on the hinder edge of the lower canine.
A Synopsis of the American Bats of the Genus Pipistrellus|Walter W. Dalquest
Anaesthesia Sexualis status est in quo vir aut mulier omnino caret sensatione sexuali.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley

Prothorax two-thirds wider than long, sides parallel in basal half, convergent anteriorly.
Journal of Entomology and Zoology, March 1917|Various
Out of this basal belief have sprung up the stories that relate the deeds of the 'hidden' saints.
The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century|Leo Wiener

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