Good and Numb

In the practice of medicine (especially surgery) and dentistry, anesthesia is a temporary induced state with one or more of analgesia (relief from or prevention of pain), paralysis (muscle relaxation), amnesia (loss of memory), and unconsciousness. A patient under the effects of anesthetic drugs is referred to as being anesthetized.

Anesthesia enables the painless performance of medical procedures that would cause severe or intolerable pain to an unanesthetized patient. I, for one, am happy it exists and biting on a bullet during surgery is no longer the norm.

This week, a look at anesthesia.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never." - Marguerite de Valois (French princess of the Valois dynasty who became queen of France, 1553 - 1615)

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