anæsthesia

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Same as medullary anæthesia.
• noun Loss of the sense of touch, as from paralysis or extreme cold; diminution or loss of the physical sense of feeling; specifically, a state of insensibility, especially to pain, produced by inhaling an anesthetic, as chloroform or ether, or by the application of other anesthetic agents. Also anesthesia, anæsthesis, anesthesis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Med.) Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anæsthetic.

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• noun Alternative spelling of anaesthesia.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness