sedation

See also: sédation

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

sedation (countable and uncountable, plural sedations)

1. The act of sedating, especially by use of sedatives.

   The patient was so agitated that the doctor resorted to sedation.

Derived terms

• conscious sedation
• terminal sedation

Translations

act

Albanian: qetësim (sq) m Catalan: sedació f Czech: sedace f Finnish: sedaatio French: sédation (fr) f German: Sedierung (de) f Italian: sedazione (it) f Latin: sēdātiō f Portuguese: sedação f Romanian: sedație (ro) f Slovak: sedácia Spanish: sedación (es) f Swedish: sövning (sv) c Turkish: sedasyon

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