What's the difference between aesthesia and anaesthesia?

Aesthesia


Definition:

  • (n.) Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anaesthesia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Classical symptoms of dengue (fever, headache, aesthesia, myalgia) occurred in all the patients.
  • (2) Pain associated with median nerve paraesthesia or hypo-aesthesia are indications for urgent treatment; in four patients where operation was delayed, the outcome was poor.
  • (3) Decompressive laminectomy at the L3-4 level significantly reduced the area of hypo-aesthesia in the thigh, effecting complete cure in seven of the 11 cases.
  • (4) The content of ppCRH mRNA was unchanged 4 h after ether aesthesia.

Anaesthesia


Definition:

  • (n.) Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anaesthetic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
  • (2) This study compares anaesthesia with controlled ventilation of the lungs with atracurium and alfentanil analgesia with halothane anaesthesia.
  • (3) It is concluded that extradural adrenaline does not usefully reduce systemic absorption of 0.5% bupivacaine, but may improve its efficacy in extradural anaesthesia for elective Caesarean section.
  • (4) Anaesthesia was maintained with artificial ventilation and alcuronium, or spontaneous ventilation with halothane.
  • (5) During anaesthesia with 60-70 per cent N2O in O2 and 0.2 per cent isoflurane, a maintenance dose (MD) of fentanyl was administered using a continuous variable-rate IV fentanyl infusion, supplemented by intermittent 50 micrograms IV boluses.
  • (6) Anaesthesia was achieved by a mixture of oxygen, nitrous oxide and fluothane without use of muscle relaxants.
  • (7) Typical kinetics of local anaesthetics are presented for various methods of regional anaesthesia informing the anaesthetist on corresponding plasma concentrations if the recommended maximum doses are exceeded and thus he gets useful information for his daily work.
  • (8) With attention to proper performance and patient selection, spinal and epidural anaesthesia are safe and efficacious options when choosing anaesthetic technique.
  • (9) A sex difference in postanaesthetic mortality after fluroxene anaesthesia was found in Swiss Webster mice.
  • (10) Emily Stow London • Until I retired a year ago I was a consultant anaesthetist with a special interest in obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia.
  • (11) The reduction in respiratory function in those subjects without an abdominal incision demonstrated that other factors, particularly the influence of a general anaesthesia, need to be taken into account.
  • (12) Two of the excluded women refluxed during episodes of hiccough that occurred shortly after induction of anaesthesia.
  • (13) The drug proved to be of high value in alleviating nocturnal coughing controlling spastic bronchitis in children, as a pretreatment before bronchological examinations and their anaesthesia.
  • (14) General anaesthesia with apneic oxygenation may offer the ENT surgeon increased possibilities of exploration and operation at the level of the larynx and trachea, but owing to its biological consequences, it should be used only with circumspection and its indications should be totally justified, for acts of limited duration.
  • (15) We report an episode of hypotension, tachycardia, bronchospasm and urticaria following application of a non-ionic contrast medium (Iopamidol) during isoflurane anaesthesia.
  • (16) In acute experiments on pregnant sows under sodium pentobarbitone anaesthesia, acid base balance, oxygenation and plasma metabolite concentrations were well maintained in the dam and all fetuses which remained undisturbed in utero, irrespective of the duration of the experiment.
  • (17) Decrease in progesterone and rise in cortisol were noticed during and after anaesthesia.
  • (18) Anaphylactoid (i. e. anaphylactic-like) reactions have been estimated to occur in between one in 600 and one in 1,000 general anaesthesias.
  • (19) The patients received no premedication or basic anaesthesia and relaxation was obtained using pancuronium bromide.
  • (20) Experiments were carried out under urethane anaesthesia.

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