Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. (alternative spelling of general anesthetic English)
WordNet
n. an anesthetic that anesthetizes entire body and causes loss of consciousness [syn: general anesthetic]
Wikipedia
A general anaesthetic (or anesthetic, see spelling differences) is a drug that has the ability to bring about a reversible loss of consciousness. Anaesthetists (physician specialists), physician assistants with anaesthesia training (working with or under, or independently, of an anaesthetist and/or another physician), or nurse anaesthetists (advanced practice registered nurses specializing in anaesthesia; who may work with or under an anaesthetist or another physician, or independently) administer these drugs to induce or maintain general anaesthesia to facilitate surgery. Some of these drugs are also used in lower dosages for pain management. The biological mechanism(s) of the action of general anaesthetics are not well understood.
Usage examples of "general anaesthetic".
Tesslar was not there then he could not have pleaded with you about the irradiation burns or the fact that no general anaesthetic was given.
They'd like someone incapable of rational thinking to administer a very rapid general anaesthetic so that they can get the baby out in the next five minutes and hopefully keep the mother alive into the bargain.
As a general anaesthetic, however painful, it had worked yet again - but barely.
The drug which South American Indians used to tip their arrows with looked to those who trusted their senses like a general anaesthetic.
Then they trundle you to an operating theatre and by then they have to give you a general anaesthetic.
When next he started to recover but before he could fully rouse himself, Maas gave him a mild general anaesthetic and with Wyatts help wheeled him into the machine room where they attached him to Psychomech.
You see normally we administer a general anaesthetic to the people we abduct, so that they are never awake the entire time they are on the vessel.
And Zoya held his hand while they administered several litres of general anaesthetic to him, and performed the operation, and when he came to he had private parts twice two magnitudes smaller than before.
If someone offers me a quick rebuild under a general anaesthetic, your message may have to wait until I come round.
Hiram's medics had wanted to give Bobby a general anaesthetic as they treated him, but, staring at Hiram, he refused, and suffered the pain of the treatment in full awareness Hiram led the way across a floor empty of people past quiescent, hulking machinery.