anestesia
Spanish, noun
anestesia is spelled A-N-E-S-T-E-S-I-A (9 letters) and appears 3.8 times per million words in written Spanish, the 14,524th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anestesia is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “anesthetic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of anestesiar. With an accent, anestesiá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of anestesiar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Medicamento usado para anular el sentido del dolor sin provocar la pérdida de las funciones vitales”.
What does anestesia mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineanesthetic
- 2
feminineanesthesia (insensitivity to pain)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of anestesiar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Medicamento usado para anular el sentido del dolor sin provocar la pérdida de las funciones vitales. 2. El efecto que resulta de haber bloqueado dichas sensaciones.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of anestesia
- anestesias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to anestesia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is anestesia in Spanish?
anestesia appears 3.8 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).