general anesthesia

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Anesthesia characterized by unconsciousness, muscle relaxation, and loss of sensation over the entire body, and resulting from the administration of a general anesthetic.

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n.

Loss of the ability to perceive pain associated with loss of consciousness, produced by anesthetic agents.

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An irregular, reversible depression of the cells of the higher centers of the central nervous system that makes the patient unconscious and insensible to pain.