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anesthesia

noun as in sleep

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A procedure to reopen his urinary tract could have been done under local anesthesia.

He has had operations on both knees, and they had to put him under anesthesia to clean a long gash in his left thigh.

The story of a wayward anesthesia trainee who took a near fatal dose of fentanyl hit the news this week.

Someof the injured were being detained right after they awoke from anesthesia.

"I told him that the sleep you get with anesthesia is not real sleep, not restful sleep," Quinn testified.

There was enough whiskey in the place to provide the new specimen with a near-total anesthesia.

Anesthesia from it sets in more rapidly and lasts longer than with cocaine.

While hypnotism can be used to produce anesthesia, it has many disadvantages.

One element that is extremely important for anesthesia is deep breathing.

Feldman operated with a pocketknife sterilized in a bottle of expensive Scotch and only anodyne tablets in place of anesthesia.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to anesthesia, such as: numbness, stupor, unconsciousness, asleep, insentience, and put under.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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