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Which American physician and poet suggested the term anesthesia to describe this new state of painlessness?

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Correct answer: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. proposed the word anesthesia in a letter to William Morton in November 1846. Derived from Greek roots meaning without sensation, it quickly became the standard medical term. Holmes was also a renowned poet and the father of a famous Supreme Court justice. Photo: Armstrong & Co. (Boston, Mass.),, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.

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