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laanestesia

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1
anaesthesia; anaesthetic(medicine)
La cirugía se hizo con anestesia general y duró tres horas. The surgery was done under general anaesthesia and lasted three hours.
El dentista me puso anestesia local y no sentí nada. The dentist gave me a local anaesthetic and I felt nothing.
2
numbness (figurative)
Después de tanto estrés, vivía en una especie de anestesia emocional. After so much stress, she lived in a kind of emotional numbness.