Crossword clues for anaesthetic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anaesthetic \An`[ae]s*thet"ic\, a. (Med.)
Capable of rendering insensible; as, an[ae]sthetic agents.
Characterized by, or connected with, insensibility; as, an an[ae]sthetic effect or operation.
Anaesthetic \An`[ae]s*thet"ic\, n. (Med.) That which produces insensibility to pain, as chloroform, ether, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1846, "insensible," from Greek anaisthetos "insensate, without feeling; senseless, stupid" (see anaesthesia). Noun meaning "agent that produces anesthesia" first used in modern sense 1848 by Scottish doctor James Young Simpson (1811-1870), discoverer of the surgical uses of chloroform.
Wiktionary
a. (label en British spelling) Of, relating to, or causing anaesthesia. alt. (label en British spelling) Of, relating to, or causing anaesthesia. n. (label en British spelling) A substance that causes reversible loss of sensation or loss of consciousness; used to perform surgery without pain.
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)]
n. a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations [syn: anesthetic, anesthetic agent, anaesthetic agent]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "anaesthetic".
I am told he openly professed the most entire indifference to animal suffering, and he only gave anaesthetics to keep the animals quiet!
ANAESTHESIA IS NOT ALWAYS PUSHED TO A SUFFICIENT EXTENT, as these animals often die from the effects of the anaesthetic if given to a full extent.
In the modern laboratory there is little danger that the animals will succumb to the effects of anaesthetic.
IN MANY CASES calculated to mislead the public, so far as they suggest that the animals in question were not under an anaesthetic.
Klein, a physiologist, before the Royal Commission, testified that he had no regard at all for the sufferings of the animals he used, and never used anaesthetics, except for didactic purposes, unless necessary for his own convenience, and that he had no time for thinking what the animal would feel or suffer.
Flourens, the eminent French physiologist, tried the effect of chloroform on inferior animals, and in consequence of its powerful and fatal influence on them, put it aside as an anaesthetic.
With a homicide in reserve until Monsieur Bianchi came out of the anaesthetic, and an Ambush.
But in these experiments of Reid--as in those of Brachet--the use of anaesthetics, even had they been known to him, would have been a hindrance.
In many of the experiments, EVEN IF ANAESTHETICS HAD BEEN KNOWN at the period of his observations, THEY COULD NOT HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED.
But when it is considered that these same experiments might have been conducted under the influence of an anaesthetic, so as to minimize, if not remove, this needless suffering, this cold-blooded, heartless torture can only be characterized as contemptible and monstrous.
Savage did not explain that he had been about to use his anaesthetic bombs--effects of which they could escape by holding their breath--but that the appearance of the group of men wearing gasproof suits had made that plan useless.
It is necessarily performed under a mild anaesthetic, which prevents suffering and secures the perfect relaxation of the patient.
The button released an anaesthetic gas in the part of the reception room on the outer side of the rubberlike glass partition.
Nelaon had the master tattooist put an anaesthetic of some kind on my skin.
He watched as the tattooist spread the anaesthetic cream across her back.