Anesthesia

Alternative forms

 * anaesthesia (alternate spelling)

Noun

 * 1)  A method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain.
 * 2) The loss or prevention of pain, as caused by anesthesia.

Thesaurus
abatement; allayment; alleviation; analgesia; anesthetizing; anxiety equivalent; appeasement; assuagement; autism; callousness; catatonia; chill; chilliness; cold blood; cold heart; coldheartedness; coldness; coolness; deadening; deadness; deadpan; depraved appetite; diminishment; diminution; dispassion; dispassionateness; dulling; dullness; ease; easement; easing; electronarcosis; emotional deadness; emotionlessness; frigidity; frostiness; heartlessness; iciness; immovability; impassibility; impassiveness; impassivity; imperception; imperceptiveness; imperceptivity; impercipience; inconsiderateness; inexcitability; insensibility; insensibleness; insensitiveness; insensitivity; insentience; lack of affect; lack of feeling; lack of touch; lessening; lulling; mitigation; mollification; narcosis; narcotization; neurasthenia; numbing; numbness; objectivity; obtuseness; palliation; paresthesia; parorexia; passionlessness; pica; pins and needles; poker face; reduction; relief; remedy; salving; self-absorption; softening; soothing; soullessness; speech abnormality; spiritlessness; straight face; subduement; thick skin; unemotionalism; unexcitability; unfeeling; unfeelingness; unimpressibility; unimpressionableness; unpassionateness; unperceptiveness; unresponsiveness; unsusceptibility; unsympatheticness; untouchability; withdrawal

Related terms

 * anesthetize
 * anesthetics


 * anesthesiology
 * anesthesiologist