ANESTHESIOLOGY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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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)

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