| AGED | automated general experimental device |
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| ASG | advanced cell group; American Society for Genetics; Army Surgeon General; aspermiogenesis |
| DGIM | Division of General Internal Medicine |
| DGMS | Division of General Medical Sciences |
| DxPLAIN | Massachusetts General Hospital's expert diagnostic system |
| axillary anaesthesia | Loss of sensation in the distal two-thirds of the upper extremity following injection of a local anaesthetic solution about the nerve trunks in the axilla. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| balanced anaesthesia | A technique of general anaesthesia based on the concept that administration of a mixture of small amounts of several neuronal depressants summates the advantages, but not the disadvantages of, the individual components of the mixture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| basal anaesthesia | Parenteral administration of one or more sedatives to produce a state of depressed consciousness short of a general anaesthesia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| block anaesthesia | Regional anaesthesia in which local anaesthetic solution is injected about nerves to inhibit nerve transmission; includes spinal, epidural, nerve block, and field block anaesthesia, but not local or topical anaesthesia. Synonym: block anaesthesia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brachial anaesthesia | Anaesthetization of an upper extremity by injection of local anaesthetic solution about the brachial plexus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| painful anaesthesia | Severe spontaneous pain occurring in an anaesthetic area. Synonym: painful anaesthesia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| paracervical block anaesthesia | Regional anaesthesia of the cervix uteri by injection of local anaesthetic solution into tissues adjacent to the cervix. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rebreathing anaesthesia | A technique for inhalation anaesthesia in which a portion or all of the gases that are exhaled are subsequently inhaled after carbon dioxide has been absorbed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| paravertebral anaesthesia | Anaesthesia by injection of local anaesthetic solution about nerves as they exit from the vertebral canal; combined presynaptic, postsynaptic, and ganglionic sympathetic block by injection of local anaesthetic solution about paravertebral sympathetic chains. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rectal anaesthesia | General anaesthesia produced by instillation into the rectum of a solution containing a central nervous system depressant. (05 Mar 2000) |
| girdle anaesthesia | Anaesthesia distributed as a band encircling the trunk. (05 Mar 2000) |
| refrigeration anaesthesia | Localised application of cold as a means of producing regional anaesthesia. Synonym: refrigeration anaesthesia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| caudal anaesthesia | Regional anaesthesia by injection of local anaesthetic solution into the epidural space via the sacral hiatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| regional anaesthesia | Use of local anaesthetic solution(s) to produce circumscribed areas of loss of sensation; a generic term including conduction, nerve block, spinal, epidural, field block, infiltration, and topical anaesthesia. Synonym: conduction analgesia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| visceral anaesthesia | Loss of sensation in areas of the visceral peritoneum innervated by the splanchnic nerves. Synonym: visceral anaesthesia. (05 Mar 2000) |