Sample sentences for ANESTHESIA

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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 = loss of bodily sensation — especially created intentionally to control pain

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

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