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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A trademark for an anesthetic preparation of the drug procaine.

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  • noun procaine administered as a hydrochloride (trade name Novocain)

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  • And if a portrait of a recovering drug addict getting a root canal without Novocain is what now passes for controversy in literature then SWEET JESUS GOD HELP US ALL. I don't actually care about James Frey beyond the fact that he's pretty representative of publishing's, er, dubious business model, which seems to consist these days of flinging prodigious amounts of money at authors/personalities/semi-literate politicians once or twice a year and following up the deal with months of hysterical hand-wringing about how there's no money to buy manuscripts.

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  • And if a portrait of a recovering drug addict getting a root canal without Novocain is what now passes for controversy in literature then SWEET JESUS GOD HELP US ALL. I don't actually care about James Frey beyond the fact that he's pretty representative of publishing's, er, dubious business model, which seems to consist these days of flinging prodigious amounts of money at authors/personalities/semi-literate politicians once or twice a year and following up the deal with months of hysterical hand-wringing about how there's no money to buy manuscripts.

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  • They opened with the rookie-year track "Novocain,"

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  • KNOX: Theodore shoots some Novocain into Tara Cassidy Driscoll's left ankle.

    Experimental Therapy For Sore Heels Has Skeptics 2010

  • Getting approval to skate this number from the federation turned out to be like pulling teeth without Novocain.

    Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

  • As I was giving a patient some Novocain the other day which is technically Procaine, with Novocain being a trade name, but that's for another post, she asked me about hypnosis for dental pain instead.

    Thomas P. Connelly, D.D.S.: Hypnosis and Dentistry D.D.S. Thomas P. Connelly 2011

  • One last thing I'll mention -- I also uncovered that the USC School of Dentistry (technically the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of the University of Southern California) is teaching hypnosis as an alternative to needles and Novocain (7).

    Thomas P. Connelly, D.D.S.: Hypnosis and Dentistry D.D.S. Thomas P. Connelly 2011

  • KNOX: Theodore shoots some Novocain into Tara Cassidy Driscoll's left ankle.

    Experimental Therapy For Sore Heels Has Skeptics 2010

  • Ok, now I'm more interested... teeth pulled with no pain and no Novocain?

    Thomas P. Connelly, D.D.S.: Hypnosis and Dentistry D.D.S. Thomas P. Connelly 2011

  • Getting approval to skate this number from the federation turned out to be like pulling teeth without Novocain.

    Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

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