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ethyl chloride

n. (context organic compound English) chloroethane

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ethyl chloride

n. a colorless flammable gas used as a local surface anesthetic

Usage examples of "ethyl chloride".

But the rings were spinning missiles of vaporized dextrethyl, that anesthetic developed from ethyl chloride some two hundred years before, and not yet bettered for its special uses.

A second property was that, like the ancient ethyl chloride, it was the quickest-acting anesthetic known.

And in that little bottle is ethyl chloride, a very powerful instant anaesthetic.

But the effects of these, and more modern anaesthetics of the ethyl chloride type, have been accepted by physicians and surgeons, rather than experimented upon with a view to ascertaining the cause of chemicals upon the mental reactions of the patient.

And in that little ''Qttle is Ethyl Chloride, a very powerful instant anaesthetic.