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anaesthesis

anaesthesis noun: loss of feeling; insensibility.

Noun

anaesthesis (uncountable)

  1. loss of feeling; insensibility

Origin of anaesthesis

From an- + -aesthesis.

Questions about anaesthesis

What does anaesthesis mean?
Anaesthesis means loss of feeling; insensibility.
What part of speech is anaesthesis?
Anaesthesis is a noun.

Words near anaesthesis in the dictionary

  1. anaesthesiological
  2. anaesthesiologist
  3. anaesthesiologists
  4. anaesthesiology
  5. anaesthesiometry
  6. anaesthesis
  7. anaesthete
  8. anaesthetes
  9. anaesthetic
  10. anaesthetical
  11. anaesthetically

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