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Numbing brand
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novocain
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Word definitions for novocain in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also novocaine , 1905, originally a trademark name for procaine (by Lucius & Brüning, Hoechst am Main, Germany), from comb. form of Latin novus "new" (see new ) + -caine , abstracted from cocaine . As a local anaesthetic, it began as a substitute for cocaine. ...
Usage examples of novocain.
A German chemist developed Novocain as the first local anesthetic in 1905.
Although it felt as if she was having a tooth reset without Novocain, Claire managed to draw both canines into their recessed sockets.
It felt like getting a tooth drilled without Novocain, except it went on and on.
Many of my orgasms, however, had had a distant, thrumming, Novocain ed quality.
A few of the nuggets would explode between his molars, but then his jaw would snap shut and drive all of the unshattered nuggets straight up into his palate where their armor of razor-sharp dextrose crystals would inflict massive collateral damage, turning the rest of the meal into a sort of pain-hazed death march and rendering him Novocain mute for three days.
In spite of the fact that McGee anesthetized Susan's lower spinal area with Novocain, the lumbar puncture wasn't painless, but neither was it remotely as bad as she had expected it to be.