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Definition anesthesia
Etymology
an- + aesthesia, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (anaisth?sía), from ??- (an-, “not”) with ???????? (aísth?sis, “sensation”).
Coined in 1846 CE by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., in a letter to dentist William T. G. Morton, the first practitioner to publicly demonstrate the use of ether during surgery, writing:
Noun
anesthesia (countable and uncountable, plural anesthesias)
- (American spelling, medicine) An artificial method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain without causing loss of vital functions, by the administration of one or more agents which block pain impulses before transmitted to the brain.
- The loss or prevention of sensation, as caused by anesthesia, lesion in the nervous system or other physical abnormality.
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