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Definition: Anaesthesia |
AnaesthesiaNoun1. Loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "anaesthesia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Loss of feeling or sensation. Although the term is used for loss of tactile sensibility, or of any of the other senses, it is applied especially to loss of the sensation of pain, as it is induced to permit performance of surgery or other painful procedures. (references) |
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Synonym: AnaesthesiaSynonym: anesthesia (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Numbness | Noun: numbness. (physical insensibility); anaesthesia; pins and needles. |
Physical Insensibility | Noun: insensibility, physical insensibility; obtuseness. Adjective: palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia, anaesthesia; sleep; hemiplegia, motor paralysis; vegetable state; coma. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Anaesthesia |
| English words defined with "anaesthesia": Aesthesia, Anaesthesis ♦ Hemianaesthesia. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Anaesthesia (1938) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Base Hospital No. 9. Chateauroux, France : Operating room demonstration of Gas-Oxygen apparatus for anaesthesia. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Anaesthesia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.91% of the time. "Anaesthesia" is used about 162 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.91% | 157 | 25,059 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.09% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 162 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "anaesthesia": anaesthesia apparatus ♦ block anaesthesia ♦ caudal anaesthesia ♦ conduction anaesthesia ♦ epidural anaesthesia ♦ general anaesthesia ♦ local anaesthesia ♦ nerve block anaesthesia ♦ regional anaesthesia ♦ saddle block anaesthesia ♦ spinal anaesthesia ♦ subarachnoid anaesthesia ♦ topical anaesthesia. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "anaesthesia": Para-anaesthesia. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "anaesthesia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | anestezi (analgesia, anesthesia). (various references) | |
Arabic | فقدان الحس (anesthesia, impassivity, numbness), تنويم, تحذير (admonition, anesthesia, caution, exhortation, tip off, warning), تبنيج (anesthesia), خدار (anesthesia, torpor), خدر (anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthesia, anesthetize, benumb, creep, deaden, drug, look out, narcotize, numb, numbness, opiate, stupefaction, stupefy, stupor, torpid, torpor), الخدار فقدان الحس (anesthesia). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | упойка (anaesthetic, anesthesia, anesthetic, opiate), упойване (anesthesia), обща безчувственост (anesthesia), обезболяване (anesthesia), анестезия (anesthesia), локална безчувственост (anesthesia). (various references) | |
Chinese | 麻醉 (anaesthetise, anaesthetised, Anaesthetize, anaesthetized, anesthesia, anesthetise, anesthetised, anesthetize, anesthetized, Narcotic, Narcotical). (various references) | |
Czech | anestézie (anesthesia). (various references) | |
Danish | anaestesi (anesthesia), anæstesi, anæstesi. (various references) | |
Dutch | anesthesie (anesthesia), verdoving (anesthesia). (various references) | |
Esperanto | anestezo. (various references) | |
Farsi | حسگیر, داروی بیهوشی , بیهوشی (Anesthesia, Stupefaction, Stupidity, Syncope, Trance), بی حسی (Apathy, Stupor). (various references) | |
Finnish | anestesia. (various references) | |
French | anesthésie (anesthesia). (various references) | |
German | Narkose (narcosis, anesthesia), Anästhesie (anesthesia). (various references) | |
Greek | αναισθησία (anesthesia, insensitivity, unconsciousness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אי חישה, אלחוש (narcosis), הרדמה (narcosis, narcotic, narcotization). (various references) | |
Hungarian | érzéstelenítés (anesthesia), érzéstelenség (anesthesia), érzéketlenség (brutality, callousness, dispassion). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pembiusan (anesthetisation, narcosis). (various references) | |
Italian | anestesia (anesthesia). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 麻酔. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ますい. (various references) | |
Korean | 마취. (various references) | |
Manx | kyrloghid (deadness, insensibility, loss of feeling, numbness, senselessness, torpidity, torpor), anloaghtys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anaesthesiaay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | anestesia (anesthesia). (various references) | |
Romanian | anestezie (anesthesia). (various references) | |
Russian | обезболивание (analgesia, anesthesia), анестезия (anesthesia). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | anestezija (anesthesia). (various references) | |
Spanish | anestesia (anesthesia). (various references) | |
Swedish | anestesi, bedövning (anasthesia, unconsciousness). (various references) | |
Turkish | anestezi (anesthesia), uyuşturma (narcotization), hissizlik (anesthesia, apathy, deadness, impassivity, indifference, insensibility, insensitiveness, insensitivity, numbness, torpidity, torpidness, torpor), duyumsuzlaşma. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | знеболювання (analgesia, anesthesia), анестезія (anesthesia). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự gây tê (anesthesia). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "anaesthesia": anaesthesias. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "anaesthesia" (pronounced a'nusthē"zhu) |
| 8 | a' n u s th ē" zh u | anesthesia. |
| 3 | -ē" zh u | amnesia, magnesia. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-e-h-i-n-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: anesthesia, athanasies. | |
-2 letters: asthenias, asthenies, taeniases. | |
-3 letters: anatases, antheses, anthesis, asthenia, entasias, esthesia, etesians, shaitans, shanties, sheitans, sthenias, teniases. | |
-4 letters: anatase, ashiest, astasia, easiest, entases, entasia, entasis, etesian, ethanes, hastens, hessian, hessite, nasties, sateens, senates, sensate, sestina, sestine, shaitan, shantis, sheitan, sithens, snathes, sthenia, taeniae, taenias, tansies, theines, tisanes. | |
-5 letters: anises, ansate, asanas, assent, easies. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-e-e-h-i-n-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: anaesthesias. | |
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