anesthesia

anesthesia
    n 1: loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of
         consciousness [syn: {anesthesia}, {anaesthesia}]
    

anaesthesia \an`[ae]s*the"si*a\, anesthesia
\an`es*the"si*a\([a^]n`[e^]s*th[=e]"z[-e]*[.a] or
   [a^]n`[e^]s*th[=e]"zh[.a]), n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'anaisqhsi`a;
   'an priv. + a'i`sqhsis feeling, a'isqa`nesqai to feel: cf. F.
   anesth['e]sie. See {aesthetics}.] (Med.)
   Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a
   state of general or local insensibility produced by disease
   or by the inhalation or application of an anaesthetic. AS
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Anesthesia \An`es*the"si*a\, n., Anesthetic \An`es*thet"ic\, a.
   Same as {An[ae]sthesia}, {An[ae]sthetic}.
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100 Moby Thesaurus words for "anesthesia":
      abatement, allayment, alleviation, analgesia, anesthetizing,
      anxiety equivalent, appeasement, assuagement, autism, callousness,
      catatonia, chill, chilliness, cold blood, cold heart,
      coldheartedness, coldness, coolness, deadening, deadness, deadpan,
      depraved appetite, diminishment, diminution, dispassion,
      dispassionateness, dulling, dullness, ease, easement, easing,
      electronarcosis, emotional deadness, emotionlessness, frigidity,
      frostiness, heartlessness, iciness, immovability, impassibility,
      impassiveness, impassivity, imperception, imperceptiveness,
      imperceptivity, impercipience, inconsiderateness, inexcitability,
      insensibility, insensibleness, insensitiveness, insensitivity,
      insentience, lack of affect, lack of feeling, lack of touch,
      lessening, lulling, mitigation, mollification, narcosis,
      narcotization, neurasthenia, numbing, numbness, objectivity,
      obtuseness, palliation, paresthesia, parorexia, passionlessness,
      pica, pins and needles, poker face, reduction, relief, remedy,
      salving, self-absorption, softening, soothing, soullessness,
      speech abnormality, spiritlessness, straight face, subduement,
      thick skin, unemotionalism, unexcitability, unfeeling,
      unfeelingness, unimpressibility, unimpressionableness,
      unpassionateness, unperceptiveness, unresponsiveness,
      unsusceptibility, unsympatheticness, untouchability, withdrawal