basal anesthesia

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Parenteral administration of one or more sedatives to produce a state of depressed consciousness short of a general anesthesia.

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A procedure to reopen his urinary tract could have been done under local anesthesia.
Ayatollah Khamenei’s Cancer Scare|IranWire|September 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He has had operations on both knees, and they had to put him under anesthesia to clean a long gash in his left thigh.
Gordie Howe Hockey’s Greatest War Horse|W.C. Heinz|May 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The story of a wayward anesthesia trainee who took a near fatal dose of fentanyl hit the news this week.
The Secret World of Drug-Addict Doctors|Kent Sepkowitz|April 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Someof the injured were being detained right after they awoke from anesthesia.
Ukraine’s Mother Teresa Of The Maidan|Anna Nemtsova|February 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST

"I told him that the sleep you get with anesthesia is not real sleep, not restful sleep," Quinn testified.
Up to Speed: 5 Key Moments From the Michael Jackson AEG Trial|Christine Pelisek|September 28, 2013|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
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
This he did on an oak branch six feet long whose basal end was placed in water.
Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists|Various