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How to pronounce “anesthesia”
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Pronunciation guide for anesthesia
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of anesthesia with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- A Medical Mythbuster’s Mission to Improve Health Care
While under anesthesia, she was given a hysterectomy without consent.
- Definition summary
- (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.
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How to pronounce anesthesia
A Medical Mythbuster’s Mission to Improve Health Care

While under anesthesia, she was given a hysterectomy without consent.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “anesthesia”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (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.
- (American spelling) The loss or prevention of sensation, as caused by anesthesia (in the above sense), or by a lesion in the nervous system, or by another physical abnormality.
- (loosely, metonymic, often proscribed) A medication that provides the service of temporarily blocking sensation.
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