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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
hemianesthesia — Anesthesia on one side of the body. SYN: unilateral anesthesia. alternate h. h. affecting the head on one side and the body and extremities on the other side. SYN: crossed h.. crossed h. SYN: alternate h.. * * * hemi·an·es·the·sia or chiefly Brit … Medical dictionary
hemianesthesia — noun The inability to feel sensations from touch on one side of the body. Also called unilateral anesthesia … Wiktionary
Villaret syndrome — unilateral paralysis of the ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth cranial nerves and sometimes the seventh, due to a lesion behind the parotid glands. This causes paralysis of the superior constriction of the pharynx and difficulty swallowing… … Medical dictionary
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