anaesthesia
Noun 1. Loss of bodily sensation: A state in which a person loses the feeling of touch, pain, temperature, or other physical sensations in part or all of the body. This can occur with or without a loss of consciousness. * The medical procedure requires general anaesthesia, so the patient will be completely unconscious and feel no pain. * Local anaesthesia numbs only a specific area of the body, allowing the patient to remain awake during minor surgery.
Anaesthesia is a medical term used to describe the controlled, temporary loss of sensation. It is a critical component of modern surgery and pain management. The word is most commonly used in medical, clinical, and scientific contexts. * Before the operation, the anaesthetist administered the anaesthesia. * The development of safe anaesthesia revolutionized surgery.
- Balanced anaesthesia: A technique using a combination of different drugs to provide unconsciousness, pain relief, and muscle relaxation, minimizing the side effects of any single agent.
- Regional anaesthesia: A type of anaesthesia that blocks sensation in a larger region of the body, such as an epidural used during childbirth.
- Dissociative anaesthesia: A state characterized by profound analgesia and amnesia, where the patient may appear conscious but is unresponsive to pain (e.g., induced by ketamine).
- Anaesthetic (noun/adj): The drug or agent used to induce anaesthesia. As an adjective, it describes something that causes loss of sensation.
- The surgeon injected a local anaesthetic.
- The gas has an anaesthetic effect.
- Anaesthetist (noun): A medical doctor specialized in administering anaesthesia and monitoring patients during surgery.
- Anaesthetize (verb): To administer an anaesthetic to; to induce anaesthesia.
- The veterinarian will anaesthetize the animal before the procedure.
- Numbness: Lack of physical sensation.
- Insensibility: The state of being unable to feel.
- Stupor: A state of near-unconsciousness or insensibility (often implies a non-medical cause).
- Under anaesthesia: The state of being anaesthetized.
- The patient was under anaesthesia for three hours.
- To induce anaesthesia: To cause the state of anaesthesia to begin.
- The doctor will induce anaesthesia using an intravenous drug.
- loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness