Basal anaesthesia
noun
preliminary and incomplete anaesthesia induced to prepare a surgical patient for total anaesthesia with another agent
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a cylindrical organelle, within the cytoplasm of flagellated and ciliated cells, that contains microtubules and forms the base of a flagellum or cilium: identical in internal structure to a centriole. basal body n. a cellular organelle -ssociated with the formation of cilia and flagella and resembling the centriole in structure. also called basal granule.
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