Condition of having sensation temporarily suppressed.
Loss of 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.
A state, deliberately produced in a patient by a medical deliberately produced in a patient by a medical procedure, in which he or she can feel no pain, either in a part or in the whole of the body.
A loss of felling caused by damage to nerves.
A state, deliberately produced in a patient by a medical procedure, in which he or she can feel no pain, either in a part or in the whole of the body.
A loss of feeling caused by damage to nerves.
The loss or absence of sensation or feeling. Commonly used to describe a reversible process which allows operations and painful or unpleasant procedures to be performed without distress to the patient.
Anesthesia is the state of complete absence of sensation and insensitivity. This term is predominantly used to describe the artificial induction of anesthesia for medical purposes.
Two types of anaesthesia may be used: local and general. A patient given a local anaesthetic remains conscious, and sensation is abolished in only a specific part of the body. A patient under general anaesthesia is rendered unconscious and maintained in this state with a combination of drugs that are either injected into a vein or inhaled.
Nerve tissue damage resulting from injury or illness may lead to the occurrence of anesthesia in a specific region.