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Anesthesia definition: 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.
anesthesia definition: state characterized by loss of feeling or sensation; depression of nerve function is usually the result of pharmacologic action and is induced to allow performance of surgery or other painful procedures.
anesthesia definition: (an-es-THEE-zha) Drugs or substances that cause loss of feeling or awareness. Local anesthetics cause loss of feeling in a part of the body. General anesthetics put the person to sleep.
Anesthesia Procedure definition: Treatment with a pharmacological substance that produces a loss of feeling.
biofeedback definition: feedback loop consists of an organism, its response, and a method of detecting and displaying the response.
Biofeedback, Psychology definition: The therapy technique of providing the status of one's own AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM function (e.g., skin temperature, heartbeats, brain waves) as visual or auditory feedback in order to self-control related conditions (e.g., hypertension, migraine headaches).
Biofeedback definition: A training technique in which various bodily functions, such as heart rate, skin temperature, muscle tension, and brain activity are monitored so that people can learn to control them voluntarily so as to improve their health and physical performance.
Dental Care definition: The total of dental diagnostic, preventive, and restorative services provided to meet the needs of a patient (from Illustrated Dictionary of Dentistry, 1982).
Dental Procedure definition: Any of the dental diagnostic, preventive, and restorative services provided to meet the needs of a patient.
dialysis definition: (dye-AL-ih-sis) The process of cleansing the blood when the kidneys are not able to filter the blood.
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Core Verbal Autopsy Procedures with Comparative Validation Results from Two Countries

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Evaluation of subjective and objective cyclodeviation following oblique muscle weakening procedures

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Indian Journal of Ophthalmology , 2008

Disparities in preventive procedures: comparisons of self-report and Medicare claims data

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