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🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Anästhesie

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Anästhesie

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Anesthesia/ˌæn.əsˈθiː.zi.ə/
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Der Patient bekam eine Vollnarkose."

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As noun
  1. 1

    Insensibility to pain, especially as artificially induced by the administration of gases or the injection of drugs before surgical operations.

    "The patient was placed under general anesthesia before the surgery began."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Modern Latin, coined in the mid-19th century from Ancient Greek an- ('without') plus aisthesis ('feeling, sensation'). Originally popularized shortly after the introduction of surgical etherization in the 1840s to describe the medically induced absence of pain sensation.

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