General anesthesia
Definition:
Anasthesi derived from Greek an-"no, no" and aesthētos, "perception, the ability to feel"), which generally means an act of relieving pain such as reversible amnesia, analgesia, loss of consciousness, loss of skeletal muscle reflexes and decrease the stress response and decreased respiratory and circulatory systems Cardiovascular.
General Anasthesia be applied in injection, inhalation or a combination of both.
Drugs for the relief of pain was divided into 2 groups, the analgesic and anesthetic. Analgesic pain relief is without loss of overall pain. Animals that were given analgesic remain in a conscious state. Analgesic does not always eliminate all the pain, but always relieve the pain.
Several types of anesthesia cause loss of consciousness, whereas other types only remove the pain from a particular body part and the animals remain conscious.