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Definition of sedation noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

sedation

noun
 
/sɪˈdeɪʃn/
 
/sɪˈdeɪʃn/
[uncountable]
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  1. the act of giving somebody drugs in order to make them calm or to make them sleep; the state that results from this
    • under sedation The victim's wife was last night being kept under sedation in the local hospital.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • deep
    • heavy
    • mild
    • …
    preposition
    • under sedation
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    Word Originmid 16th cent.: from French sédation or Latin sedatio(n-), from sedare ‘settle’, from sedere ‘sit’.
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