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ANESTHESIOLOGY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does anesthesiology mean?
• ANESTHESIOLOGY (noun)
The noun ANESTHESIOLOGY has 1 sense:
1. the branch of medical science that studies and applies anesthetics
Familiarity information: ANESTHESIOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of medical science that studies and applies anesthetics
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("anesthesiology" is a kind of...):
medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Derivation:
anesthesiologist (a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated)
Context examples
An educational, research and scientific association of physicians organized to raise and maintain the standards of the medical practice of anesthesiology and improve the care of the patient.
(American Society of Anesthesiologists, NCI Thesaurus)
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