Anaesthesia
noun
A practice of medicine which causes loss of feeling and sensation in the body or a part of the body.
Before the surgery, the doctor administered anaesthesia to ensure the patient would feel no pain.
Often appears as...
- general anaesthesia
- local anaesthesia
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Technical
noun
A state in which someone is not able to feel or is less aware of things around them, often due to drugs or medical procedures.
After the accident, he was in anaesthesia and had no idea what was happening around him.
Often appears as...
- under anaesthesia
- post-anaesthesia
noun
A practice of medicine which causes loss of feeling and sensation in the body or a part of the body.
Before the surgery, the doctor administered anaesthesia to ensure the patient would feel no pain.
Often appears as...
- general anaesthesia
- local anaesthesia
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A state in which someone is not able to feel or is less aware of things around them, often due to drugs or medical procedures.
After the accident, he was in anaesthesia and had no idea what was happening around him.
Often appears as...
- under anaesthesia
- post-anaesthesia
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Pro Tip 1/3Medical Settings
Used in contexts of medical procedures to describe inducing insensitivity to pain.
The anaesthesiologist will discuss the risks of anaesthesia before your operation.
Pro Tip 2/3Types Specified
Often specified as 'general' or 'local', indicating the scope of the numbing effect.
For a minor procedure, the surgeon might use only local anaesthesia.
Pro Tip 3/3Administration
Administration implies it's actively given by a specialist, not something that occurs naturally.
A trained professional must administer anaesthesia to ensure patient safety.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Settings
Used in contexts of medical procedures to describe inducing insensitivity to pain.
The anaesthesiologist will discuss the risks of anaesthesia before your operation.
Pro Tip 2/3Types Specified
Often specified as 'general' or 'local', indicating the scope of the numbing effect.
For a minor procedure, the surgeon might use only local anaesthesia.
Pro Tip 3/3Administration
Administration implies it's actively given by a specialist, not something that occurs naturally.
A trained professional must administer anaesthesia to ensure patient safety.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Settings
Used in contexts of medical procedures to describe inducing insensitivity to pain.
The anaesthesiologist will discuss the risks of anaesthesia before your operation.
Pro Tip 2/3Types Specified
Often specified as 'general' or 'local', indicating the scope of the numbing effect.
For a minor procedure, the surgeon might use only local anaesthesia.
Pro Tip 3/3Administration
Administration implies it's actively given by a specialist, not something that occurs naturally.
A trained professional must administer anaesthesia to ensure patient safety.
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Anna Deavere Smith: Four...
so I didn't want them to put me under anesthesia, or whatever you call it. And so they sewed my face up. And then they had to straighten out my nose, and they took these rods and shoved them up my nose and went up through my brains and felt like it was coming out the top of my head, and everybody said that it should have killed me,
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Chris Jordan: Turning...
that we aren't feeling enough as a culture right now. There's this kind of anesthesia in America at the moment. We've lost our sense of outrage, our anger and our grief about what's going on in our culture right now, what's going on in our country, the atrocities that are being committed in our names around the world.
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Your brain hallucinates...
And then I was back, drowsy and disoriented, but definitely there. Now, when you wake from a deep sleep, you might feel confused about the time or anxious about oversleeping, but there's always a basic sense of time having passed, of a continuity between then and now. Coming round from anesthesia is very different.
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There's more to life...
He survived, and when I asked him what was going through his mind as he faced death, he said all he could think about was needing to live so he could be there for my brother and me, and this gave him the will to fight for life. When he went under anesthesia for emergency surgery,
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Taking DNA from a...
so doesn't kind of wake up she's a big boy yesterday there you go that one we're putting the lubricant in her eyes because in under this anesthesia her eyes will stay open so he's mainly for protection and to keep them nice and moist perfect the hood will help to
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Asking where consciousnes...
that we currently observe and measure like an EEG this sounds a lot like the visual system but had a much grander scale so I introduced you again to that heretical question let's go back there and let's use anesthesia as another
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How does anesthesia...
replace damaged livers and kidneys, and many other life-saving operations. And each year, new anesthesia techniques are developed that will ensure more and more patients survive the trauma of surgery.
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What are animals...
We recognize affection. Courtship is courtship. And then we ask, "Are they conscious?" When you get general anesthesia, it makes you unconscious, which means you have no sensation of anything.
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Donating a Kidney to a...
When I woke up from anesthesia, groggily I remember my mom and my wife's face. And they said everything had gone well, but even better, they said that my recipient was at the hospital.
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The quest to understand...
when we fall into deep sleep without dreams, or when we go under anesthesia, and it is what we regain when we recover from sleep or from anesthesia.
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Anna Deavere Smith: Four...
so I didn't want them to put me under anesthesia, or whatever you call it. And so they sewed my face up. And then they had to straighten out my nose, and they took these rods and shoved them up my nose and went up through my brains and felt like it was coming out the top of my head, and everybody said that it should have killed me,
Video examples
Chris Jordan: Turning...
that we aren't feeling enough as a culture right now. There's this kind of anesthesia in America at the moment. We've lost our sense of outrage, our anger and our grief about what's going on in our culture right now, what's going on in our country, the atrocities that are being committed in our names around the world.
Video examples
Your brain hallucinates...
And then I was back, drowsy and disoriented, but definitely there. Now, when you wake from a deep sleep, you might feel confused about the time or anxious about oversleeping, but there's always a basic sense of time having passed, of a continuity between then and now. Coming round from anesthesia is very different.
Video examples
There's more to life...
He survived, and when I asked him what was going through his mind as he faced death, he said all he could think about was needing to live so he could be there for my brother and me, and this gave him the will to fight for life. When he went under anesthesia for emergency surgery,
Video examples
Taking DNA from a...
so doesn't kind of wake up she's a big boy yesterday there you go that one we're putting the lubricant in her eyes because in under this anesthesia her eyes will stay open so he's mainly for protection and to keep them nice and moist perfect the hood will help to
Video examples
Asking where consciousnes...
that we currently observe and measure like an EEG this sounds a lot like the visual system but had a much grander scale so I introduced you again to that heretical question let's go back there and let's use anesthesia as another
Video examples
How does anesthesia...
replace damaged livers and kidneys, and many other life-saving operations. And each year, new anesthesia techniques are developed that will ensure more and more patients survive the trauma of surgery.
Video examples
What are animals...
We recognize affection. Courtship is courtship. And then we ask, "Are they conscious?" When you get general anesthesia, it makes you unconscious, which means you have no sensation of anything.
Video examples
Donating a Kidney to a...
When I woke up from anesthesia, groggily I remember my mom and my wife's face. And they said everything had gone well, but even better, they said that my recipient was at the hospital.
Video examples
The quest to understand...
when we fall into deep sleep without dreams, or when we go under anesthesia, and it is what we regain when we recover from sleep or from anesthesia.
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Nick Rhodes
English Musician
I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.
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Parker Palmer
American Educator
I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America is a world power.
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Haris Pasovic
Bosniak Director
I think we are slowly killing liberty, creativity, intelligent thinking; it's as if we are being led into a world that is like a huge shopping centre, with a sort of anaesthesia about everything except the choice of goods in front of us.
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RuPaul
American Entertainer
I remember being 14 years old, making a pact with myself. I would never join into the matrix, never join into the status quo, and I would always fight it. It always felt like I was on an operating table and the anesthesia never worked.
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Khaled Hosseini
Afghani Novelist
A doctor in a hospital told me that when the mujaheddin were fighting in the early Nineties, he often performed amputations and Caesarean sections without anesthesia because there were no supplies.
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H. L. Mencken
American Writer
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
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Michael Keaton
American Actor
Anesthesia is quite remarkable. It's lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
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Meg Ryan
American Actress
The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.
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Antonio Tabucchi
Italian Writer
I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.
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Nick Rhodes
English Musician
I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.
Quote examples
Parker Palmer
American Educator
I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America is a world power.
Quote examples
Haris Pasovic
Bosniak Director
I think we are slowly killing liberty, creativity, intelligent thinking; it's as if we are being led into a world that is like a huge shopping centre, with a sort of anaesthesia about everything except the choice of goods in front of us.
Quote examples
RuPaul
American Entertainer
I remember being 14 years old, making a pact with myself. I would never join into the matrix, never join into the status quo, and I would always fight it. It always felt like I was on an operating table and the anesthesia never worked.
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Khaled Hosseini
Afghani Novelist
A doctor in a hospital told me that when the mujaheddin were fighting in the early Nineties, he often performed amputations and Caesarean sections without anesthesia because there were no supplies.
Quote examples
H. L. Mencken
American Writer
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
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Michael Keaton
American Actor
Anesthesia is quite remarkable. It's lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
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Meg Ryan
American Actress
The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.
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Antonio Tabucchi
Italian Writer
I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.
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