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anesthetics

n. (plural of anesthetic English)

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None of these responses were usual side effects of local anesthetics, although local anesthetics were capable of causing an extraordinarily wide range of adverse neurological and cardiac effects in a few unfortunate individuals.

But he remembered enough to know that the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system was the part affected by local anesthetics, not the parasympathetic part apparently affected in the Noble and Owen cases.

All this meant to Jeffrey that if he was thinking of a contaminant, it would have to have been a compound that mirrored local anesthetics to an extent, something like nicotine.

What was so startling about the degeneration in both cases was that local anesthetics could not have been responsible.

It had to be something that could be fatal in minute amounts and at the same time mimic local anesthetics to a great degree.

Devlin had done pretty well even to there, but Bromlley went 234 ROBIN COOK on to talk about how nerves worked and how anesthetics screwed them up.

Since it has the same apparent effect as local anesthetics, no one would ever suspect anything.