Narkose — 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.
Senses
Narkose 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.
- general anesthesia (American spelling, medicine) A type of anesthesia that causes loss of sensation to the whole body, usually to the point of unconsciousness.
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.