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anesthesia
[ an-uhs-thee-zhuh ]
noun
- Medicine/Medical. general or local insensibility, as to pain and other sensation, induced by certain interventions or drugs to permit the performance of surgery or other painful procedures.
- Pathology. general loss of the senses of feeling, as pain, heat, cold, touch, and other less common varieties of sensation.
- Psychiatry. absence of sensation due to psychological processes, as in conversion disorders.
anesthesia
/ ˌæɪˈθːɪə /
noun
- the usual US spelling of anaesthesia
anesthesia
/ ă′ĭs-ٳŧ′ə /
- Total or partial loss of sensation to touch or pain, caused by nerve injury or disease, or induced intentionally, especially by the administration of anesthetic drugs, to provide medical treatment. The first public use of ether to anesthetize a patient in Boston in 1846 initiated widespread acceptance of anesthetics in the Western world for surgical procedures and obstetrics. General anesthesia, administered as inhalation or intravenous agents, acts primarily on the brain, resulting in a temporary loss of consciousness. Regional or local anesthesia affects sensation in a specific anatomic area, and includes topical application of local anesthetics, blocking of peripheral nerves, spinal anesthesia, and epidural anesthesia, which is used commonly during childbirth.
anesthesia
- Loss of sensation or consciousness. Anesthesia can be induced by an anesthetic , by acupuncture , or as the result of injury or disease.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of anesthesia1
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“The patient was referred to our office for dental treatment under general anesthesia due to her young age and acute situational anxiety,” according to the statement.
He went under anesthesia 13 times in six months, required monthly breathing treatments that made him spit gray foam, and lost most of the brow and all the lashes around the affected eye.
Also hacked were photos and videos of patients nude and partially clothed, including images of them undergoing surgery while under anesthesia, the lawsuit alleges.
Earlier this year, the insurance giant Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield announced that it would start limiting reimbursements for anesthesia based on its own time limits for surgeries.
That company proposed that its health insurance plans in Connecticut, New York and Missouri would no longer cover anesthesia care if a surgery or operation extends beyond an arbitrary time limit.
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