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Word Meanings - ANAESTHESIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anæsthetic.

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  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • PRODUCIBILITY
    The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • ABSENCE
    1. A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12. 2. Want; destitution; withdrawal. "In the absence of conventional law."
  • GENERALIZED
    Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
  • GENERALIZABLE
    Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
  • PRODUCEMENT
    Production.
  • FEELINGLY
    In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
  • SENSATION
    An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable,
  • GENERALTY
    Generality. Sir M. Hale.
  • STATE SOCIALISM
    A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
  • PARTIALISM
    Partiality; specifically , the doctrine of the Partialists.
  • INSENSIBILITY
    1. The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates. 2. Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity. Syn.
  • DISEASEFUL
    1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
  • PARTIALITY
    1. The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind. 2. A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking;
  • ENTIRELY
    1. In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost. Euphrates falls not entirely into the Persian Sea. Raleigh. 2. Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely. To highest God entirely pray. Spenser.
  • FEELER
    One of the sense organs or certain animals , which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. 3. Anything,
  • STATECRAFT
    The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
  • SENSATIONALISM
    The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism. 2. The practice or methods of sensational
  • PRODUCTIVITY
    The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
  • HODGKIN'S DISEASE
    A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • MAJOR GENERAL
    . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
  • SAGEBRUSH STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname.
  • JUMPING DISEASE
    A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
  • OLD LINE STATE
    Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
  • ENSTATE
    See INSTATE
  • KATASTATE
    A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
  • BAYOU STATE
    Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
  • REAPPLICATION
    The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
  • REESTATE
    To reëstablish. Walis.
  • BLACKWATER STATE
    Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
  • ARISTATE
    Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
  • BICOSTATE
    Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.
  • TRIPLICOSTATE
    Three-ribbed.

 

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