anesthesia

English

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Alternative forms

• anaesthesia (alternate spelling)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /æn.əsˈθiːz.i.ə/
• (US) IPA: /æn.əs.ˈθi.ʒə/

Noun

anesthesia (countable and uncountable; plural anesthesias)

1. (medicine) A method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain.
2. The loss or prevention of pain, as caused by anesthesia.

Translations

loss of bodily sensation

• Arabic: تخدير (ar) (takhdiir) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 麻醉 (cmn) (mázuì)

• Czech: anestezie (cs) f
• Danish: anæstesi (da)
• French: anesthésie (fr) f, anœsthésie (fr) f
• German: Anästhesie (de) f
• Hebrew: הרדמה (he)
• Hindi: निश्चेतक (hi) (niścetak)
• Japanese: 麻酔 (ja) (ますい, masui)

• Korean: 마취 (ko) (machwi)
• Persian: هوشبری (fa)
• Russian: анестезия (ru) (anestezíja) f, обезболивание (ru) (obezbólivanije) n, (general anesthesia) наркоз (ru) (narkóz) m
• Serbo-Croatian: анестезија (sh) f, anestezija (sh) f
• Spanish: anestesia (es) f
• Thai: อาการชา (th) (aa-gaa-rá-chaa)
• Vietnamese: sự gây mê (vi), sự gây tê (vi)

Related terms

anesthetize anesthetics

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