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Anesthesia - need a DEFINITION

Daniel F. Bossut dfb at med.unc.edu
Sun Mar 19 22:41:37 EST 1995


Wessel van der Merwe <127wvdm at chiron.wits.ac.za> wrote:
>Anesthesia is a VAST field, and much has been discovered. As a result it has 
>become very difficult to define. If you know a good recent definition it 
>would be very much appreciated if you could reply.

Although there are many ways to produce anethesia, the definition is still
the original one: a state in which the senses (touch, pain, thermal, ..)
are not functional. 
Daniel Bossut



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