Anesthesia

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Anesthesia is a supervillain (nonfiction) who can cause other people to experience analgesia (relief from or prevention of pain), paralysis (muscle relaxation), amnesia (loss of memory), and unconsciousness.

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  • Anesthesia - in the practice of medicine (especially surgery) and dentistry, anesthesia or anaesthesia 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.
  • Wooden chest - a rigidity of the chest following the administration of high doses of opioids during anaesthesia.
  • Congenital insensitivity to pain - Congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP), also known as congenital analgesia, is one or more rare conditions in which a person cannot feel (and has never felt) physical pain. It is an extremely dangerous condition.