BACK TO anesthesia
anesthesia vs. anesthetic
[ an-uhs-thee-zhuh ]
noun
- general or local insensibility, as to pain and other sensation, induced by certain interventions or drugs to permit the performance of surgery or other painful procedures.
- general loss of the senses of feeling, as pain, heat, cold, touch, and other less common varieties of sensation.
- absence of sensation due to psychological processes, as in conversion disorders.
[ an-uhs-thet-ik ]