verdoving — meaning in English
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English meaning
- anesthesia noun A medically induced state in which a patient cannot feel pain, used during surgery or other procedures.
- anesthetic noun A drug used to stop pain or cause unconsciousness for a medical procedure.
- befuddlement noun The state of being befuddled; a feeling of being dazed and perplexed due to confusion.
- freezing adj Extremely cold.
Senses
verdoving is used for these senses in English:
- anesthesia (medicine, American spelling, Canadian spelling) An artificial method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain without causing loss of vital functions, by the administration of one or more agents which block pain impulses before transmitted to the brain.
- anesthetic (American spelling, medicine) A substance administered to reduce the perception of pain or to induce numbness for surgery and may render the recipient unconscious.
- befuddlement The state of being befuddled.
- freezing (countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.
anesthesia — full definition
- noun A medically induced state in which a patient cannot feel pain, used during surgery or other procedures.
- noun The loss of sensation itself, whether caused deliberately by medicine or by nerve damage.
anesthetic — full definition
- noun A drug used to stop pain or cause unconsciousness for a medical procedure.
- adj Causing loss of sensation or reducing pain.