Jonathan Kozol

The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.

American Writer

Tyler Perry

What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.

American Actor

Tim Henman

When I was 28, my wisdom teeth were coming through and I had all four out under general anaesthetic. I remember friends who'd had terrible experiences, but my teeth were removed at 8am and I ate steak and chips for lunch that day.

British Tennis Player

Joan Rivers

With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what death is - without waking up to someone clapping and going, 'Joan, wake up, it's all over and you're looking pretty'.

American Comedian

Johnny Colt

Oil's in everything we have, from anesthetics to aspirations to aspirins to most parts of the cell phone contain oil. We interface with oil in every part of our life.

American Musician

Rose Macaulay

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

English Novelist

Sylvia Plath

Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.

American Poet

Frank Leahy

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

American Coach

Cesare Pavese

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Italian Poet

John Oliver

There is no greater anesthetic than sport.

British Comedian

Anaesthetics are used for pain control during medical procedures.

Pain Control

Anaesthetics can be gases, liquids, or creams depending on the application needed.

Variety of Forms

General anaesthetics make you unconscious, while local anaesthetics do not.

Level of Consciousness

Anaesthetic drugs reduce or eliminate sensation in a specific area or throughout the body.

Sensation Reduction

Anaesthetic drugs are typically discussed in a medical setting, like hospitals.

Medical Setting

Anaesthetic effects have limited duration and require timing for medical procedures.

Time-Sensitive

In non-medical contexts, 'anaesthetic' can describe something extremely uninteresting.

Metaphorical Use

In colloquial use, 'anaesthetic' implies a negative emotion, suggesting boredom or lack of stimulation.

Negative Connotation

 targeting different systems. For mild pain, non-prescription medications can act on cells where the pain signals start. Other stronger pain medicines and anesthetics work by reducing the activity in pain-sensing circuits or boosting our coping system, or endorphins. Some people can cope with pain using methods that involve

How does your brain...

 We make a decision it's that big, even though it's not that big. And what that illustrates is that decisions are the key things that support our perceptual bubble. It keeps it alive. Without decisions you cannot see, you cannot think, you cannot feel. And you may think that anesthetics work

A brain in a supercompute...

 including the brain. That's what inhalational anesthetics do. In Western medicine, diethyl ether was the first common one. It was best known as a recreational drug until doctors started to realize that people sometimes didn't notice injuries they received under the influence.

How does anesthesia...

 your conscious awareness when surgery is over we turn off the anesthetic we wash all that drug out of your brain and we watch your consciousness reassemble itself so I decided why not watch this in the operating room so I decided to measure and observe my brain my patients

Asking where consciousnes...

 ketamine, which also goes by another name, Special K, which is a club drug and drug of abuse. It's still used across the world as an anesthetic. It's used in children. We use it on the battlefield. It's actually the drug of choice in a lot of developing nations,

Could a drug prevent...

 quiet and we put them to sleep with local anesthetics and most importantly what we do is we use a rigorous and often uncomfortable process of physical therapy and occupational therapy to retrain the nerves in the nervous system

The mystery of chronic...

 to stay alive and breed and mother nature is on the side of the bed bug the bug administers an anesthetic so you don't wake up as well as an anticoagulant so your vital life essence will gush freely from your veins and

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 be an easier job for me as well for outsiders using crude implements for dental surgery and without anesthetic would be out of the question the procedure will also damage polanyi's teeth shortening their life

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 Just over a year ago, for the third time in my life, I ceased to exist. I was having a small operation, and my brain was filling with anesthetic.

Your brain hallucinates...

 the darting anesthetic fails to work properly and flip has to go out on a limb to give her a booster