anaesthesia

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: an=aes=the=sia

OXFORD DICTIONARY

anaesthesia, n. (US anesthesia) the absence of sensation, esp. artificially induced insensitivity to pain usu. achieved by the administration of gases or the injection of drugs.

Derivative

anaesthesiology n.

Etymology

mod.L f. Gk anaisthesia (as AN-(1), aisthesis sensation)

ROGET THESAURUS

anaesthesia

Physical Insensibility

N insensibility, physical insensibility, obtuseness, palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia, anaesthesia, sleep, hemiplegia, motor paralysis, vegetable state, coma, anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral, nitrous oxide, laughing gas, exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen, refrigeration, insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient, callous, thick- skinned, pachydermatous, hard, hardened, case hardened, proof, obtuse, dull, anaesthetic, comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.

Numbness

N numbness, anaesthesia, pins and needles, numb, benumbed, deadened, intangible, impalpable, (2) Heat.