Associations to the word «Anaesthesia»

Wiktionary

ANAESTHESIA, noun. (British spelling) (medicine) A method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain.
ANAESTHESIA, noun. Loss or prevention of pain, as caused by anesthesia.

Dictionary definition

ANAESTHESIA, noun. Loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope