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Definition of: anesthesia
(an′is·thē′zhə, -zhē·ə) noun
1. Partial or total loss of physical sensation, particularly of touch, due to disease or psychic disturbances.
2. Local or general insensibility to pain induced by the injection of an anesthetic drug, or the inhaling of an anesthetic gas. Also an·es·the·sis (an′is·thē′·sis): also spelled anaesthesia [< NL < Gk. anaisthēsia insensibility < an- without + aisthēsis sensation]
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