名詞 anesthesia:

1. loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness
   同義詞：anaesthesia

1. Anesthesia was a great innovation in medicine.
   麻醉是一項偉大的醫(yī)學(xué)創(chuàng)新。
2. A technique, as for relieving pain or inducing regional anesthesia, in which thin needles are inserted into the body at specific points.
   針灸，針刺療法，針刺麻醉以細(xì)針扎入身體特定部位以減輕疼痛或誘導(dǎo)局部麻醉的方法
3. His lecture is intended to bear down on the application of acupuncture anesthesia in brain surgery.
   他的學(xué)術(shù)報告打算重點談針刺麻醉在腦外科方面的應(yīng)用。

anesthesia 也作 an.aes.the.sia

n.（名詞）
Total or partial loss of sensation, especially tactile sensibility, induced by disease, injury, acupuncture, or an anesthetic, such as chloroform or nitrous oxide.
感覺缺失：感覺，尤其是知覺的全部或部分缺失，由疾病、受傷、針灸，或是麻醉藥，如氯仿或含氮氧化物引起
Local or general insensibility to pain with or without the loss of consciousness, induced by an anesthetic.
麻木：局部或全身的痛覺缺失，知覺或有或無，由麻醉藥引起

來源：
New Latin anaesthesia
現(xiàn)代拉丁語 anaesthesia
from Greek anaisthôsia [insensibility]
源自 希臘語 anaisthôsia [感覺缺失]
an- [without] * see a-
an- [無] *參見 a-
aisthôsis [feeling] from aisthanesthai [to feel] * see au-
aisthôsis [感覺] 源自 aisthanesthai [去感覺] *參見 au-

<注釋>The following passage, written on November 2, 84', by Oliver Wendell Holmes,a physician-poet and the father of the Supreme Court justice of the same name,allows us to pinpoint the entry ofanesthesia and anesthetic into English: .Every body wants to have a hand in a great discovery. All I will do is to give you a hint or two as to names—or the name—to be applied to the state produced and the agent. The state should, I think, be called ‘Anaesthesia’ [from the Greek word anaisthôsia, .lack of sensation.]. This signifies insensibility . . . The adjective will be ‘Anaesthetic.’ Thus we might say the state of Anaesthesia, or the anaesthetic state..This citation is taken from a letter to William Thomas Green Morton,who in October of that year had successfully demonstrated the use of ether at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.Althoughanaesthesia is recorded in Nathan Bailey`s Universal Etymological English Dictionary in 72, it is clear that Holmes really was responsible for its entry into the language.TheOxford English Dictionary has several citations for anesthesia and anesthetic in 847 and 848, indicating that the words gained rapid acceptance.
下面是奧立佛·萬德·霍姆斯寫于84'年月2的一段話。作者是個詩人醫(yī)生和與其同名的最高法庭法官的父親。這段話能使我們斷定anesthesia 和 anesthetic 進入英語的背景： .每個人都希望能夠參與一次偉大的發(fā)現(xiàn)。我所要做的是告訴你一兩個提示去命名，或能被應(yīng)用于某種狀態(tài)的名稱。我認(rèn)為這種狀態(tài)應(yīng)該被叫做Anaesthesia ［從希臘詞anaisthesia .感覺缺失.發(fā)展而來］。 這個詞表示無感覺…其形容詞應(yīng)該是‘Anaesthetic’。這樣我們可以說感覺缺失的狀態(tài)或感覺缺失.。這段話是從寄給威廉·托馬斯·格林·莫頓的一封信上摘錄下的，莫頓同年十月在波士頓的馬薩諸塞總醫(yī)院曾成功使用了醚。盡管南森·巴利于72年把anaethesia 選入了 通用英語詞源詞典 ， 但是很顯然是霍姆斯首先把這個詞引入英語。牛津英語詞典 上有幾處引用了847年和848年有 anesthesia 和 anesthetic 的句子， 說明這兩個詞很快就被人們所接受