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Definition
loss of bodily sensation — especially created intentionally to control pain- The operation requires general anesthesia.
- My dentist will do it while I'm under local anesthesia.
- I don't think he could feel it yet, since he was still under the effects of the local anesthesia the surgical team had applied to the incision site.Todd Burpo -- Heaven Is for Real
- Anesthesia was considered sinful.Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- I can't stand fever and delirium or listening to people coming out of anesthesia.Maxine Hong Kingston -- The Woman Warrior
- They gave Yossarian total anesthesia and knocked him out.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- "Hi, Mom," he whispered, his words fuzzy with the remnants of anesthesia.Nicholas Sparks -- The Best of Me
- Come back around 5 o'clock, he had said, when Finny should be coming out of the anaesthesia.John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
- Niedermann can't feel a thing, and he goes around as if he's had a massive dose of local anaesthesia twenty-four hours a day.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
- We argued that without anesthesia, the procedure would be needlessly painful and cruel.Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
- When Tomas brought him home, Karenin had not quite come out of the anesthesia.Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- I swear, it hurts, like he's dissecting me without benefit of anesthesia.Ellen Hopkins -- Identical
- And the dentist called his own stuff through the door, about anesthesia and paste-drying time, and only having two hands.Rebecca Stead -- When You Reach Me
- We've administered the anesthesia into your IV.Ted Dekker -- White: The Great Pursuit
- I'm not using any anesthesia," she declared.Luis J. Rodriguez -- Always Running
- —Are you the anesthesia man?Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
- In the operating room I was given anesthesia, and the next thing I recalled was waking up in a room with the doctor present.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- "He was a case for anesthesia," Dick agreed.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
- Jerry and the sergeant went from cage to cage, and the monkeys began to go to sleep under the anesthesia.Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
- In contrast to baldness, this radical treatment caused him no alarm at all, except for his natural fear of a bloodbath without anesthesia.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
anesthesia = loss of bodily sensation — especially created intentionally to control pain