anesthesiology
noun
anesthesiology is a noun meaning “The science of administering anesthetics” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-E-S-T-H-E-S-I-O-L-O-G-Y and has 7 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does anesthesiology mean?
noun
- 1
CanadaUSThe science of administering anesthetics.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce anesthesiology?
- US
Anesthesiology has 7 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Sapaa-anesthesiology.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of anesthesiology
- anaesthesiology UK
- anaesthesialogy rare
- anesthesialogy US, rare
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is anesthesiology?
Anesthesiology appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 52,337th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Anesthesiology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense science of administering anaesthetics:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | anesthésiologie |
| German | Betäubungskunde, Anästhesiologie |
| Portuguese | anestesiologia |
| Spanish | anestesiología |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.