Say: ah-ness-the-sya No, it's not the name of a princess in a Disney movie, even though it may sound like one! Anesthesia is actually medicine that doctors give kids to make them feel comfortable when they're having surgery, stitches, or other things that might cause pain Anesthesia is cool because it helps kids fall asleep for a little bit so the doctors can fix something A doctor can give you anesthesia with a shot or by letting you breathe a special kind of air You might feel kind of funny when this happens, but don't worry, it won't hurt, and you'll be back to normal in no time!
Standard cataract surgery anesthetic is a local anesthetic that blocks the optic nerve The anesthesia is administered by injection and is painless The patient is awake during surgery but may be sedated
-A combination of medicines given to you before and during an operation or procedure so you don 't feel pain and won 't be aware of the operation while it is happening
The loss of sensation, primarily to pain, often accompanied by the loss of consciousness
Absence of any sensation in response to stimulation that would normally be painful or nonpainful
lack of normal sensation, especially the awareness of pain, which may be brought on by anesthetic drugs General anesthesia causes loss of consciousness; local or regional anesthesia causes loss of feeling only to a specified area
Medical procedure that puts you to sleep so that you won't move during the operation or feel any pain
Drugs that a person gets before and during surgery so he or she will not feel pain Anesthesia should always be given by a doctor or a specially trained nurse
Total or partial loss of sensation, especially tactile sensibility, induced by pharmaceutical agent, disease process, injury, or acupuncture
The partial or complete loss of sensation with or without loss of consciousness
Loss of sensation resulting from pharmacologic depression of nerve function or from neurological dysfunction
A medication or other agent is used to cause a loss of feeling For general Anesthesia, a gas or intravenous medication is used to make the mother unconscious during cesarean birth For Spinal Anesthesia, a drug is injected into the lower spinal area to numb waist down for cesarean birth For Epidural Anesthesia, a drug is given through a fine tube inserted in the mothers lower back to numb the vaginal area and the lower abdomen for both vaginal and cesarean birth
the loss of feeling or sensation as a result of medications or gases General anesthesia causes loss of consciousness Local or regional anesthesia numbs only a certain area
{i} (Pathology) lack of feeling, loss of sensation (caused by disease); (Medicine) localized or general reduction of sensitivity to pain (through drugs)
see anaesthesia. the usual American spelling of anaesthesia (anaisthesia, from aisthesis )
(Tıp, İlaç) Anesthesia awareness, or "unintended intra-operative awareness" occurs during general anesthesia, when a patient has not had enough general anesthetic or analgesic to prevent consciousness and the recall of events
{i} (Pathology) lack of feeling, loss of sensation (caused by disease); (Medicine) localized or general reduction of sensitivity to pain (through drugs)
A dangerous time for people with sleep apnoea The anaesthetic drugs, pre-medication sedatives and post operative pain relief drugs can all worsen sleep apnoea If you are on nasal APNOEA (ap-nee-ah) A pause in breathing; conventionally more than 10 seconds From the Greek a (without) pnoea (breath)
regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the epidural space of the spinal cord; sensation is lost in the abdominal and genital and pelvic areas; used in childbirth and gynecological surgery
Anesthesia produced by the injection of a local anesthetic into the epidural space of the lumbar or sacral region of the spine, inducing regional anesthesia from the abdomen or pelvis downward and used especially to control pain during childbirth
Anesthesia characterized by unconsciousness, muscle relaxation, and loss of sensation over the entire body, and resulting from the administration of a general anesthetic
a mental disorder involving loss of sensitivity in the hand and wrist; "since no combination of nerves serve this area a glove anesthesia is clearly psychogenic in origin
Anesthesia characterized by the loss of sensation in a circumscribed region of the body, produced by the application of a regional anesthetic, usually by injection
loss of sensation in a region of the body produced by application of an anesthetic agent to all the nerves supplying that region (as when an epidural anesthetic is administered to the pelvic region during childbirth)
the parts of a patient's body that would touch a saddle if the patient were sitting in one are anesthetized by injecting a local anesthetic into the spinal cord
anesthesia of the lower half of the body; caused by injury to the spinal cord or by injecting an anesthetic beneath the arachnoid membrane that surrounds the spinal cord