neuroleptoanalgesia
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neuroleptoanalgesia
[‚nu̇r·ō‚lep·tō‚an·ə′jē·zhə] (medicine)
A state of analgesic consciousness produced by the administration of neuroleptic drugs, allowing painless surgery to be performed on a wakeful subject.
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