general anaesthesia

1. 1.

   a state of total unconsciousness resulting from anesthetic drugs (as for a major surgical operation)

   Synonymsgeneral anesthesia

   Broaderanesthesia

   Narrowerinhalation anesthesiatwilight sleep

Questions about general anaesthesia

What does general anaesthesia mean?

general anaesthesia means "a state of total unconsciousness resulting from anesthetic drugs (as for a major surgical operation)".

What is another word for general anaesthesia?

Close synonyms include general anesthesia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is general anaesthesia a common word?

general anaesthesia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.