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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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Most people have teeth removed under local anaesthesia by a general dentist or oral surgeon.
It is usually performed as a day case surgical procedure under general anaesthesia.
I was injected with a few needles' worth of anaesthesia and given nine stitches to my head.
This is a major operation requiring single lung anaesthesia, and many patients with cardiac or underlying lung disease will not tolerate it.
There was little difference in maternal safety between inhalational anaesthetics used for general anaesthesia.
A polyvinyl tube about 4 mm in diameter is passed pernasally after topical anaesthesia.

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