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Anesthesia — Loss of feeling or awareness. A local anesthetic causes loss of feeling in a part of the body. A general anesthetic puts the person to sleep. * * * 1. Loss of sensation resulting from pharmacologic depression of nerve function or from neurologic… … Medical dictionary
thermoanesthesia — Loss of the temperature sense or of the ability to distinguish between heat and cold; insensibility to heat or to temperature changes. SYN: thermanalgesia, thermanesthesia, thermoanalgesia. [thermo + G. an priv. + aisthesis, sensation] … Medical dictionary
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