Animal hypnosis is the practice of inducing a trance-like state in animals for various purposes such as veterinary treatment and scientific experimentation. Synonyms for animal hypnosis include animal hypnotherapy, animal hypnotism, animal trance, and animal sedation. Hypnotism and hypnotherapy involve inducing a state of heightened suggestibility in humans, and animal hypnotherapy operates on similar principles with a focus on animals. Animal sedation is often used for medical procedures to calm or put animals to sleep, while animal trance refers to the state of deep relaxation and altered mental state induced in animals. All of these synonyms describe the act of putting animals into a trance-like state for different reasons.