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noun

anesthesia

loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness

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Six example sentences with anesthesia, each labelled with its topic.

  • Under anesthesia the patient felt nothing while the surgeon set the bone, and woke asking when they would begin.

    Medicine

  • Before anesthesia, dentists worked in seconds rather than minutes, and patients gripped the chair through every extraction.

    History

  • Nobody fully explains how anesthesia switches awareness off, though researchers can now watch the change spread across the cortex.

    Science

  • Philosophers cite anesthesia when asking where the self goes during the hours the brain records nothing at all.

    Philosophy

  • The film uses the fog of waking from anesthesia to blur what the patient actually saw in the operating theatre.

    Movies

  • The poet describes anesthesia as a door closing on sound, and the next line begins in a bright, unfamiliar room.

    Literature

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