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A drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations
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anesthetic
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (label en American spelling) Causing the reduction of pain sensitivity. n. (context American spelling medicine English) A substance administered to reduce the perception of pain or to induce numbness. An anesthetic may or may not render the recipient ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An anesthetic ( anaesthetic or anesthetic in English) is a drug that causes anesthesia , which is a reversible loss of sensation. Anesthetics contrast with analgesics (painkillers), which relieve pain without eliminating sensation. These drugs are generally ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. characterized by insensibility; "the young girls are in a state of possession--blind and deaf and anesthetic"; "an anesthetic state" [syn: anesthetic(a) , anaesthetic(a) ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
alternative spelling of anaesthetic (q.v.). See ae .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A can of whipped cream uses nitrous oxide, an anesthetic , as a propellant. ▪ Neil said. 59 Arm drift is just the way that neurologists tell that the anesthetic has arrived. ▪ The chemical, once used as an anesthetic , can be ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anesthesia \An`es*the"si*a\, n., Anesthetic \An`es*thet"ic\, a. Same as An[ae]sthesia , An[ae]sthetic .
Usage examples of anesthetic.
I fear that it will remain the same even when the anesthetic becomes available and the others, too, are deeply unconscious.
Colonel, fix a cloth over his nose and attempt to regulate the flow of the anesthetic from the bottle into a very slow drip.
Stop yelling or I shall order the anesthetic to be released from the vents in your saddle and we shall have no further trouble from you.
Revenge for the girl-child who had been no more than a shield, revenge for all the cluck heads and the junkies who had found willing and cooperative allies in their attempt at anesthetic self-destruction, revenge for all the non-white peoples of the world who had stumbled into the snares set by their own kind in the holy name of profit.
All but one were healing, and I applied a topical anesthetic to the one that had become slightly stiff and inflamed.
Jeffrey had had one other adverse reaction to local anesthetic in his professional career.
There was always the fear of allergy to the local anesthetic, although developing allergy in the two hours since the first dose seemed a rather farfetched notion.
It was also documented that the patient had a total paralysis following his anesthetic complication that involved not only the spinal cord but cranial nerves as well.
But parasympathetic stimulation was not HARMFUL INTENT 101 expected with a local anesthetic like Marcaine.
Each time the circulating nurse returned to the OR, he expected her to spread the news that there had been a terrible anesthetic complication.
Glancing down the page, Jeffrey saw that the anesthetic had indeed been Marcaine .
Remember, all we know for sure is that this Harding fellow has worked at all three hospitals at the time of the anesthetic problems.
Under local anesthetic, a thin, flexible catheter was passed up the femoral artery in the leg, to the aorta, and finally to the celiac axis, a network of arteries coming off the aorta to supply blood to all the upper-abdominal organs.
Then he would wake up, unless more pentathol, or a different anesthetic, was administered.
Although the anesthetic worked, Liston operated with his customary speed, single-handedly amputating the leg at the thigh in exactly twenty-eight seconds.