ANESTHESIA
Anesthesia
Anesthesia, or anaesthesia, traditionally meant the condition of having sensation blocked or temporarily taken away. It is a pharmacologically induced and reversible state of amnesia, analgesia, loss of responsiveness, loss of skeletal muscle reflexes, decreased stress response, or all of these simultaneously. These effects can be obtained from a single drug which alone provides the correct combination of effects, or occasionally a combination of drugs to achieve very specific combinations of results. This allows patients to undergo surgery and other procedures without the distress and pain they would otherwise experience. An alternative ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Anesthesia
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anesthesia
Noun
- A method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain.
- The loss or prevention of pain, as caused by anesthesia.
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