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(an-es-THEE-zha): Loss of feeling or awareness. A local anesthetic causes loss of feeling in a part of the body. A general anesthetic puts the person to sleep.
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Induced loss of sensitivity to pain in all or a part of the body for medical reasons.
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Condition produced in order to permit a painless surgical peration. Loss of sensation occurs.
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A loss of sensation especially to touch usually resulting from a lesion in the nervous system or from some other abnormality.
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The prevention of pain. General anesthesia puts the patient to sleep. Local anesthesia numbs a specific body part. Regional anesthesia, such as spinal anesthesia and epidural anesthesia, numbs the nerves that conduct sensation to a circumscribed body area.
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