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The word 'anesthesia' is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to the loss of sensation or feeling, usually induced by medicine or a medical procedure, in order to reduce pain. For example, "The patient required a general anesthesia for the surgery."
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anesthesia
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A method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain.
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"The plan or issuer may not impose cost sharing with respect to anesthesia services performed in connection with the preventive colonoscopy if the attending provider determines that anesthesia would be medically appropriate for the individual," HHS said in its guidance document.
The new rules made it clear that patients cannot be billed a copay for anesthesia during a colonoscopy.
The level of decay, they added, is so severe that they often recommend using general anesthesia because young children are unlikely to sit through such extensive procedures while they are awake…
This is called surface or topical anesthesia.
This is called infiltration anesthesia.
The procedure requires only local anesthesia.
In some patients, the cortical changes could be reversed with peripheral anesthesia.
It may also occur after strenuous exercise, convulsions (e.g., epilepsy), emotional stress, anesthesia, the administration of epinephrine, pregnancy and labour, and lack of oxygen (as in the early phases of adaptation to high altitude).
The most famous contribution by the United States to medical progress at this period was undoubtedly the introduction of general anesthesia, a procedure that not only liberated the patient from the fearful pain of surgery but also enabled the surgeon to perform more extensive operations.
While antisepsis and anesthesia placed surgery on an entirely new footing, similarly important work was carried out in other fields of study, such as parasitology and disease transmission.
The corneal reflex is rapid (0.1 second reflex time) and is the last to disappear in deepening anesthesia, impulses being relayed from the nucleus of the fifth nerve to the seventh cranial nerve, which transmits the motor impulses.
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