anesthesia [an-uhs-thee-zhuh] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
anesthesia/anaesthesia
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: induced sleep; induced absence of feeling
Synonyms: analgesia, insentience, numbness, stupor, unconsciousness
Main Entry: stupor
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: daze, unconsciousness
Synonyms: amazement, anesthesia, apathy, asphyxia, bewilderment, coma, dullness, fainting, hebetude, hypnosis, inertia, inertness, insensibility, languor, lassitude, lethargy, narcosis, numbness, petrifaction, sleep, slumber, somnolence, sopor, stupefaction, suspended animation, swoon, swooning, torpor, trance
Antonyms: consciousness, sensibility
Main Entry: numbness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deadness
Synonyms: anesthesia, apathy, dullness, insensibility, insensitivity, paralysis, stupefaction, stupor
Example Sentences
  • The infections were caused, they said, by the reuse of anesthesia syringes among multiple patients.
  • General anesthesia and will be asleep and unable to feel pain.
  • If you are donating a kidney, you will be placed under general anesthesia before surgery.
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Main Entry: insensibility
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dullness
Synonyms: analgesia, anesthesia, apathy, carus, coma, inactivity, indifference, insusceptibility, lethargy, narcoma, narcosis, numbness, stupefaction, stupor, torpor, trance, unconsciousness
Antonyms: caring
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Insensibility to touch.] Numbness.
Category: 2. Sensation; special sensation; touch
Synonyms:
-nouns
numbness (physical insensibility); anaesthesia; pins and needles.
-verbs
-adjectives
numb; benumbed; deadened; intangible, impalpable.
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