anesthesia
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“They just give you anesthesia and then you sleep,” Papi said in Spanish, recalling the time he underwent his sole colonoscopy about 15 years ago.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
Further progress could refine these tools to better assess consciousness in coma, advanced dementia, and anesthesia, and influence treatment decisions and end-of-life care.
From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2026
She had an abortion without anesthesia and returned to her teaching job right away to make ends meet.
From Salon • Dec. 3, 2025
On Jan. 26, Lisa went under anesthesia for the retrieval procedure, her third in five years.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
He went under anesthesia for what he thought was a routine procedure and woke up permanently paralyzed from the waist down.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
Vocabulary lists containing anesthesia
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