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anesthesis

anesthesis is the alternative form of anaesthesis.

Meaning of anaesthesis

Noun

anaesthesis (uncountable)

  1. loss of feeling; insensibility

Origin of anesthesis

From an- + -esthesis.

Questions about anesthesis

What is anesthesis the alternative form of?
Anesthesis is the alternative form of anaesthesis.

Words near anesthesis in the dictionary

  1. anesthesiologists
  2. anesthesiology
  3. anesthesiometer
  4. anesthesiometers
  5. anesthesiometry
  6. anesthesis
  7. anesthesize
  8. anesthesized
  9. anesthetic
  10. anesthetical
  11. anesthetically

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