anaesthesia
pronunciation
How to pronounce anaesthesia in British English:
UK [ˌænəsˈθi:ziə]
How to pronounce anaesthesia in American English:
US [ˌænɪsˈθiʒə]
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- Noun:
- loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness
Word Origin
- anaesthesia (n.)
- 1721, "loss of feeling," Modern Latin, from Greek anaisthesia "want of feeling, lack of sensation (to pleasure or pain)," from an- "without" (see an- (1)) + aisthesis "feeling," from PIE root *au- "to perceive" (see audience). As "a procedure for the prevention of pain in surgical operations," from 1846.
Example
- 1. Some succumbed to injury , infection and even complications from anaesthesia .
- 2. The us national institutes of health says that acupuncture is an effective treatment for nausea caused by anaesthesia and cancer chemotherapy , as well as dental pain following surgery .
- 3. Because such " beating heart " surgery causes little pain and does not require general anaesthesia or blood thinners , patients are back on their feet much faster than usual .
- 4. The success rate for resuscitation from anaesthesia is 92 % but if the patient is on the ward it 's below 15 % , so the patient needs to know the facts .
- 5. Practitioners trade ideas on how to increase revenue by cutting costs ; finding ways to do procedures using local anaesthesia , for instance , in order to avoid the expense of having to rent an operating room at a hospital and pay an anaesthetist .