[f. next: see -ATION.] The process of rendering insensible; subjection to the action of anæsthetics.
1860. in Fowler, Med. Voc.
1875. Wood, Therap. (1879), 287. The condition of the pupil cannot be considered a safe guide in anæsthetization.
1876. trans. Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 180. That certain painful operations … be undertaken where possible only after preceding local anæsthetization.
