Used in a Sentence

anaesthetized

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for anaesthetized.

Editorial note

Those who can't be anaesthetized with TV or video games or web-surfing inevitably turn their frustrated analytical skills upon the powers-that-be.

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Quick take

rendered insensible by means of anesthesia

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

rendered insensible by means of anesthesia

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for anaesthetized.

Example sentences

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Those who can't be anaesthetized with TV or video games or web-surfing inevitably turn their frustrated analytical skills upon the powers-that-be.

2

Normal stabilizing mechanisms like the divine right of kings were anaesthetized by Roman sensibilities.

3

Their skills were impaired, however, when the researchers attached magnets to their upper beaks, and also when the upper beak was anaesthetized.

4

I do wonder why prisoners being executed aren't completely anaesthetized first so that they don't/can't feel pain.

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Robotic manipulators are the equivalent to being able to actuate your arms and hands while anaesthetized of most the sensory information out of your braquial nerve.

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When you're putting drugs into someone's blood stream or cutting them open while anaesthetized, yeah, you need to make damn sure you're doing the right thing for them.

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It looks as if his conscious, critical faculties were anaesthetized by the creative impulse, by his impatience to get to grips with the physical forces in the solar system.

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If you’re overstimulated on caffeine or red bull, or partially emotionally anaesthetized (through behavior like intellectualization or emotional immaturity) you may be insensitive to what is truly emotionally rewarding.

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Humans can't feel pain if anaesthetized.

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The specialties with the least women are the various surgeries – the ones where your patient is immobilized, anaesthetized, opened up, and turned into a not-quite-color-coded collection of tubes and wires to poke and prod at – the ones that bear more than a passing resemblance to engineering.

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This is a complex, nuanced topic, and yes, you're right, it is cruel to the mice (although, if you read the paper, they took steps to _minimize_ the mouse's suffering -- the mice were anaesthetized during the concussion, and they were euthanized after the experiment).

Quote examples

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That the process by which they are "humanely" anaesthetized/killed (e.g., bolt gun) is still by far not the most humane way to kill animals?

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Seems like the sub-heading is the real non-clickbait summary of the story: "Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital has slashed its elective backlog by running two operating theatres side by side" TL;DR: they're running it more like a CPU pipeline, instead of the surgeon "idling" while the patient is being anaesthetized, they start anaesthetics with patient n+1 while patient n is being operated on.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use anaesthetized in a sentence?

Those who can't be anaesthetized with TV or video games or web-surfing inevitably turn their frustrated analytical skills upon the powers-that-be.

What does anaesthetized mean?

rendered insensible by means of anesthesia

What part of speech is anaesthetized?

anaesthetized is commonly used as adjective.