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Betäubung — 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.
  • stupefaction noun The state of extreme shock or astonishment.

Senses

Betäubung 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.
  • anesthetization The administration of anesthesia.
  • stupefaction The state of extreme shock or astonishment.

anesthesia — full definition

  1. noun A medically induced state in which a patient cannot feel pain, used during surgery or other procedures.
  2. noun The loss of sensation itself, whether caused deliberately by medicine or by nerve damage.

stupefaction — full definition

  1. noun The state of extreme shock or astonishment.
  2. noun A state of insensibility; stupor.

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