ANESTHESIOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anesthesiology mean? 

• ANESTHESIOLOGY (noun)
  The noun ANESTHESIOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of medical science that studies and applies anesthetics

  Familiarity information: ANESTHESIOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANESTHESIOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

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)

 Context examples 

An educational, research and scientific association of physicians organized to raise and maintain the standards of the medical practice of anesthesiology and improve the care of the patient.

(American Society of Anesthesiologists, NCI Thesaurus)