| anesthesia | Loss of normal sensation or feeling. A drug used to produce anesthesia. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| awareness | The act of "taking account" of an object or state of affairs. It does not imply assessment of nor attention to the qualities or nature of the object. (12 Dec 1998) |
| reality awareness | The ability to distinguish external objects as being different from oneself. (05 Mar 2000) |
| self-awareness | Realization of one's ongoing feeling and emotional experience; a major goal of all psychotherapy. (05 Mar 2000) |