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  2. Anesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Anesthesia is a combination of the endpoints (discussed above) that are reached by drugs acting on different but overlapping sites in the central nervous system. General anesthesia (as opposed to sedation or regional anesthesia) has three main goals: lack of movement , unconsciousness, and blunting of the stress response. In the early days of ...

  3. Anxiolytic - Wikipedia

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    The anxiety symptoms are usually persistent and constant. Patients of this disorder could experience excessive anxiety for a long duration, commonly over six months and the symptoms could occur without any specific triggers. Panic disorder: This disorder specifically refers to the suffering from panic attacks and also the fear of repetitive ...

  4. Dysesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Chronic anxiety is often associated with dysesthesia due to extreme stress. [2] Patients with this anxiety may experience numbness or tingling in the face. In one study, those patients that were examined psychologically had symptoms of anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, or somatic symptom disorder. [3]

  5. Anesthesia (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Anesthesia or anaesthesia has traditionally meant the condition of having the perception of pain and other sensations blocked. In some countries, the term is also used to mean anesthesiology . Anesthesia , Anaesthesia , or, Anæsthesia , may also refer to:

  6. Anxiety - Wikipedia

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    Anxiety is an emotion characterised by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes feelings of dread over anticipated events. [1] [2] [3] Anxiety is different from fear in that fear is defined as the emotional response to a present threat, whereas anxiety is the anticipation of a future one. [4]

  7. General anaesthesia - Wikipedia

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    General anaesthesia (UK) or general anesthesia (US) is medically induced loss of consciousness that renders a patient unarousable even by painful stimuli. [5] It is achieved through medications, which can be injected or inhaled, often with an analgesic and neuromuscular blocking agent .

  8. Hypnotic - Wikipedia

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    Zolpidem tartrate, a common but potent sedative–hypnotic drug.Used for severe insomnia. Hypnotic (from Greek Hypnos, sleep [1]), or soporific drugs, commonly known as sleeping pills, are a class of (and umbrella term for) psychoactive drugs whose primary function is to induce sleep [2] (or surgical anesthesia [note 1]) and to treat insomnia (sleeplessness).

  9. Fear of medical procedures - Wikipedia

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    Although dental anxiety is shown to be lower in men than in women, men expect more pain from the procedure. [16] This expectance of pain leads many to miss appointments and be unwilling to seek professional help for simple things like toothaches. These simple things can lead to larger problems resulting in decaying teeth and poorly cared for gums.