#clinical anesthesia
- Anesthetize — To subject a living organism, a patient, or an anatomical region to the action of an anesthetic agent, with the purpose of temporarily and reversibly suppressing pain sensitivity during a medical procedure. Figuratively, the action expresses the neutralization, numbing, or annihilation of the emotional, moral, or sensory responsiveness of a person or a community toward external stimuli.
- Anesthesio- — A learned combining form that introduces into the lexical structure of derived words the meaning of anesthesia, lack of pain sensitivity, or techniques of pharmaceutical insensibilization. This structural element is exclusively used in modern medical, biological, and chemical terminology to form complex specialized terms by direct union with various suffixes or nominal roots.