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narcosis

 
(när-kō'sĭs) pronunciation
n., pl., -ses (-sēz).
A condition of deep stupor or unconsciousness produced by a drug or other chemical substance.

[New Latin narcōsis, from Greek narkōsis, a numbing, from narkoun, to benumb, from narkē, numbness.]


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From the Greek word meaning ‘to benumb’. A soporific or insensible state; a state produced by a narcotic drug. Regrettably the word ‘narcotic’ has been misused, especially in the US, where various narcotic agencies seem to call all drugs of abuse ‘narcotics’, whether they be heroin or cocaine, though the latter produces a state opposite to narcosis.

— Alan W. Cuthbert

See analgesia; drug; opiates and opioid drugs.

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narcosis (närkō'sĭs), state of stupor induced by drugs. The use of narcotics as a therapeutic aid in psychiatry is believed to have a history dating back to the use of opium for mental disorders by the early Egyptians. Prolonged narcosis was employed at the beginning of the 20th cent.; its chief value was the reduction of excitement and tension in the psychotic patient. J. S. Horsley introduced (1936) the term narcoanalysis for the use of narcotics to induce a trancelike state in which the patient talks freely and intensive psychotherapy may be applied. It was used with considerable success in treatment of acute combat psychoneuroses during World War II.



a state of partial or complete loss of consciousness induced by a drug or drugs that have a depressant action on the central nervous system.

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A reversible state of central nervous system depression induced by a drug.

  • basal n., basis n. — narcosis with complete unconsciousness, amnesia and analgesia.
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Drug-induced unconsciousness.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - narkose

Nederlands (Dutch)
narcose

Français (French)
n. - narcose

Deutsch (German)
n. - Narkose

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (ιατρ.) νάρκωση

Italiano (Italian)
narcosi

Português (Portuguese)
n. - narcose (f) (Med.)

Русский (Russian)
наркоз

Español (Spanish)
n. - narcosis

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - narkos, bedövningstillstånd

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
昏迷状态, 麻醉

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 昏迷狀態, 麻醉

한국어 (Korean)
n. - (마약, 마취약에 의한) 혼수상태

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 麻酔, 昏睡, 昏睡状態

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الخدر : تخدر من اثر مادة مخدرة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮תרדמה ע"י סם, נרקוזה, מצב של חוסר-תחושה‬


 
 

 

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