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Anesthesia

"Anesthesia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A state characterized by loss of feeling or sensation. This depression of nerve function is usually the result of pharmacologic action and is induced to allow performance of surgery or other painful procedures.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Anesthesia" by people in this website by year, and whether "Anesthesia" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 114 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2015
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