ANAEROPLASTY

n. A®n-a’uSr-o-pla?s-ti?, From a priv., dp, air, and rAdoget, to form. Fr, anaéroplastique. Ger., Anaëroplastik. It., an aero plast i a. Valette’s term for the method of treating open wounds by immersion in warm water to prevent the somatic air, so that they heal by the “ modelling proce .” [A, ; ANÆSTHECINESIS (Lat.), n. f. A?n(a%n)-es’(a9//e2s)-the- (tha)-si2n(kitn)-e(ay’si?s. Gen., anœæsthecine’seos (-sis). From a priv., aïc@naus, sensibility, and xévnoes, movement. Fr. anesthé- Sidi, Absence of both sensibility and the power of motion. [A, A?n(asn)-e?n(a3-e?n)-o/mas, Gen., $n)-a(as)-u5r(e4r)-0'bi?-a3, ANÆSTHESEOSPASMUS (Lat.), n. m. A?n(aSn)-e2s(a-e3s)- ‘ze%(se?)-o-spa®z(spa%s)’muSs(mu‘s). See ANÆSTHETOSPAS- MUS. ANESTHESIA (Lat.), n. f. A?n(a?n)-e?s(a3-e2s)-the(tha)zi?- (si?)-a8. Gr, dvate@noia (from a priv., and aig8ngıs, perception by the senses), Fr., anesthésie. Ger., Anästhesie, It., Sp., anestesia, 1, Complete or nearly complete lo , temporary or jpermanants of the power of sensation, either in the whole body or in any part of it, involving either common tactile sensibility, the special sensibility of an individual organ, or any sort of perceptive faculty, whether due to disease, to the action of a drug, or to injury. 2. In Cullen’s cla ification, a genus of diseases of the order dysæsthesiæ. [L, 32; M.J—A. acustica. See ANAKusIA.—A. angeiospastica. A. due to spasmodic contraction of the blood-ve els (as in writers’ cramp). [Berger (L, 57).|—A. a spina bifid a. A. due to pre ure on the spinal cord in a case of spina bifid a, [M, 60.]—A. by rapid respiration. A form of anæsthetization devised by W. G. A. Bonwill. The patient is directed to breathe rapidly for at least three minutes. [Hewson, “Phila. Med. Times,” vi, Tere, p. 265 (L).]—A. by suggestion. Fr., anesthésie par suggestion. Hypnotism. special sensation, as opposed to partial a. (q. v.). [D,84.]—Unilateral a, See HEMIANASTHESIA, — Vesical a. A. of the bladder. [D, 70.]—Visceral a. Ger., viscerale Anästhesie. Lo or impairment of the special sensibility of an organ (e. g., the sense of repletion in the tladder or rectum, or that of hunger or thirst in the stomach). ANÆSTHESIANT, adj. A?n-e?s-the’zi?-a’nt. Fr., anesthésiant. See ANÆSTHETIC.