noun
anesthesia
loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness
In a sentence
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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- Medical Academic Word ListAuthoritative
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- SparkNotes 1000 SAT WordsRecognized
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