Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or resembling anesthesia.
- adjective Causing anesthesia.
- adjective Insensitive.
- noun An agent that causes loss of sensation with or without the loss of consciousness.
- noun Something likened to this in effect.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing temporary loss or impairment of feeling or sensation; producing anæsthesia.
- Of or belonging to anæsthesia; characterized by anæsthesia, or physical insensibility: as, anesthetic effects.
- noun A substance capable of producing anæsthesia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Causing the reduction of pain sensitivity.
- noun medicine A substance
administered to reduce theperception ofpain or to inducenumbness . An anesthetic may or may not render the recipientunconscious , depending upon the type used.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations
- adjective characterized by insensibility
- adjective relating to or producing insensibility
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A local anesthetic is used prior to the procedure, and a mild anesthetic is often mixed into the injection fluid.
A Pinch of Sugar for Pain Laura Johannes 2010
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Depending on the age of the child, either a local or general anesthetic is used during the eye examination.
Retinoblastoma - Diagnosing and Treating Retinoblastoma in Children 2009
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To perform the procedure, a local anesthetic is used to numb the skin on the abdomen, and a needle is inserted into the womb to remove some amniotic fluid.
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The right anesthetic is tailored between you, doctors and pertinent surgical issues (such as time length of surgery).
Surgery Concerns for Children « Happy Healthy Hip Parenting 2009
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The dose of general anesthetic is kept to a minimum until the baby is delivered.
Surgery Concerns for Children « Happy Healthy Hip Parenting 2009
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The sought after substance is sodium thiopental, the short-term anesthetic that is administered to the condemned inmate before the other two drugs that will eventually provide the inmate with a comfortable transition to the hereafter are administered.
Christopher Brauchli: Executions Should be Painless Christopher Brauchli 2010
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A footnote in a 1968 review made note of a drug called Sernyl, a short-term anesthetic developed by Parke, Davis for field use by the military but abandoned because, when overadministered, it had produced psychiatric symptoms.
Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987
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A footnote in a 1968 review made note of a drug called Sernyl, a short-term anesthetic developed by Parke, Davis for field use by the military but abandoned because, when overadministered, it had produced psychiatric symptoms.
Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987
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A footnote in a 1968 review made note of a drug called Sernyl, a short-term anesthetic developed by Parke, Davis for field use by the military but abandoned because, when overadministered, it had produced psychiatric symptoms.
Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987
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Not no, she didn’t have any, but no, she does not understand the word anesthetic.
Gringos in Paradise Barry Golson 2006
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