anaesthesia
anaesthesia is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anæsthetic.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- agent
- anaesthetic
- anaesthetize
- and
- aura
- benumb
- benumbed
- blunt
- callous
- case
- chloral
- chloroform
- coma
- comatose
- creep
- dead
- dull
- ether
- exhilarating
- formication
- gas
- hard
- hardened
- have
- hemiplegia
- hide
- impalpable
- impercipient
- influence
- insensibility
- insensible
- intangible
- itch
- laughing
- motor
- nitrogen
- nitrous
- numb
- numbness
- obtund
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is anaesthesia.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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