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<anaesthetics, neurology> The loss of normal feeling or sensation. Although the term is used for loss of tactile sensibility or of any of the other senses, it is applied especially to loss of the sensation of pain, as it is induced to permit performance of surgery or other painful procedures.
Origin: Gr. Aisthesis = sensation
American spelling: anesthesia
(13 Nov 1997)
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