awareness consciousness cognizance cognisance knowingness | having knowledge of, he had no awareness of his mistakes, his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced, their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive |
self-awareness | awareness of your own individuality |
awareness sentience | state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness, the crash intruded on his awareness |
operative field | the area that is open during surgery |
Guyana Co-operative Republic of Guyana British Guiana | a republic in northeastern South America, formerly part of the British Empire, but it achieved independence from the United Kingdom in |
private detective PI private eye private investigator operative shamus sherlock | someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information |
secret agent intelligence officer intelligence agent operative | a person secretly employed in espionage for a government |
anesthesia anaesthesia | loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness |
general anesthesia general anaesthesia | a state of total unconsciousness resulting from anesthetic drugs (as for a major surgical operation) |
local anesthesia local anaesthesia | loss of sensation in a small area of the body (as when a local anesthetic is injected for a tooth extraction) |
conduction anesthesia conduction anaesthesia nerve block anesthesia nerve block anaesthesia block anesthesia block anaesthesia | anesthesia of an area supplied by a nerve, produced by an anesthetic agent applied to the nerve |
regional anesthesia regional anaesthesia | loss of sensation in a region of the body produced by application of an anesthetic agent to all the nerves supplying that region (as when an epidural anesthetic is administered to the pelvic region during childbirth) |
topical anesthesia topical anaesthesia | loss of sensation confined to the skin or mucous surfaces (as when benzocaine or Lidocaine is applied to the surface) |
caudal anesthesia caudal anaesthesia caudal block | regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the caudal end of the spinal canal, now largely replaced by epidural anesthesia |
epidural anesthesia epidural anaesthesia epidural | regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the epidural space of the spinal cord, sensation is lost in the abdominal and genital and pelvic areas, used in childbirth and gynecological surgery |
spinal anesthesia spinal anaesthesia spinal | anesthesia of the lower half of the body, caused by injury to the spinal cord or by injecting an anesthetic beneath the arachnoid membrane that surrounds the spinal cord |
saddle block anesthesia saddle block anaesthesia | the parts of a patient's body that would touch a saddle if the patient were sitting in one are anesthetized by injecting a local anesthetic into the spinal cord |
inhalation anesthesia | general anesthesia achieved by administration of an inhalation anesthetic |
glove anesthesia | a mental disorder involving loss of sensitivity in the hand and wrist, since no combination of nerves serve this area a glove anesthesia is clearly psychogenic in origin |
operative | being in force or having or exerting force, operative regulations, the major tendencies operative in the American political system |
running(a) operative functional working(a) | (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing, in running (or working) order, a functional set of brakes |
surgical operative | relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine, a surgical appendix, a surgical procedure, operative dentistry |
intra vire | within the legal power or authority or a person or official or body etc |
operative | effective, producing a desired effect, the operative word |