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Dental anesthetic
Answer for the clue "Dental anesthetic ", 8 letters:
procaine
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Wikipedia
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Procaine is a local anesthetic drug of the amino ester group. It is used primarily to reduce the pain of intramuscular injection of penicillin , and it is also used in dentistry . Owing to the ubiquity of the trade name Novocain , in some regions procaine ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a white crystalline powder (trade name Ethocaine) administered near nerves as a local anesthetic in dentistry and medicine [syn: Ethocaine ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1918, from pro- + cocaine .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pharmaceutical drug English) A drug used as a local anaesthetic.
Usage examples of procaine.
Two pharmaceutically brown bottles on top, procaine and mannitol, dental anesthetic and baby laxative.
They scoped Shad out, offered him procaine cut with baby laxative, were ignored.