a state of total unconsciousness resulting from anesthetic drugs (as for a major surgical operation)
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General anesthesia
a state of total unconsciousness resulting from anesthetic drugs (as for a major surgical operation)
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loss of sensation in a small area of the body (as when a local anesthetic is injected for a tooth extraction)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Surgery, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity, Anaesthesiology.loss of sensation in a small area of the body (as when a local anesthetic is injected for a tooth extraction)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Surgery, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity, Anaesthesiology.loss of sensation in a region of the body produced by application of an anesthetic agent to all the nerves supplying that region (as w…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity, Anaesthesiology.loss of sensation in a region of the body produced by application of an anesthetic agent to all the nerves supplying that region (as w…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity, Anaesthesiology.Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.(veterinary medicine) infestation with coccidia
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rec…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable ki…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.(psychiatry) a disorder of memory in which dreams or fantasies are confused with reality
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.Alt. of Alopecy
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.abnormal displacement of any wall that separates two chambers (usually in the nasal cavity)
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.unusual darkening of the skin
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An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to qu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: total, unconsciousness, resulting, anesthetic, drugs.A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: total, unconsciousness, resulting, anesthetic, drugs.Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: total, unconsciousness, resulting, anesthetic, drugs.Not liable to putrefaction; nonputrescent.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: total, unconsciousness, resulting, anesthetic, drugs.An apparatus for weighing.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: total, unconsciousness, resulting, anesthetic, drugs.regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the caudal end of the spinal canal; now largely replaced by epidura…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: total, unconsciousness, resulting, anesthetic, drugs.regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the caudal end of the spinal canal; now largely replaced by epidura…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: total, unconsciousness, resulting, anesthetic, drugs.regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the caudal end of the spinal canal; now largely replaced by epidura…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: total, unconsciousness, resulting, anesthetic, drugs.The group of seven stars, commonly called the Dipper, in the constellation Ursa Major, or Great Bear. See Ursa major, under Ursa.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: total, unconsciousness, resulting, anesthetic, drugs.The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: total, unconsciousness, resulting, anesthetic, drugs.A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: total, unconsciousness, resulting, anesthetic, drugs.One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; also, a pharmaceutist or apothecary.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: total, unconsciousness, resulting, anesthetic, drugs.Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major.
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