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What does anaesthesia mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word anaesthesia? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (medicine) A method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain.
  2. Loss or prevention of pain, as caused by anesthesia.
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I was injected with a few needles' worth of anaesthesia and given nine stitches to my head.
There was little difference in maternal safety between inhalational anaesthetics used for general anaesthesia.
For many years pessaries have been used to treat prolapse, although their use has decreased with advances in anaesthesia and surgical techniques.
It is usually performed as a day case surgical procedure under general anaesthesia.
There is none of the sense of suffocation that was once a feature of general anaesthesia.
Preoperative haemorrhage and hypotension are contraindications to spinal anaesthesia, and ketamine is used in only severely ill women.

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