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Anesthetic   /ˌænəsθˈɛtɪk/   Listen
Anesthetic

noun
1.
A drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations.  Synonyms: anaesthetic, anaesthetic agent, anesthetic agent.



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"Anesthetic" Quotes from Famous Books



... may come in the moment of acute shock, when the sense of suffering, quite disconnected from its cause, pervades my entire being; or at the second when I am first "coming back" after a faint, or at the first stepping out from an anesthetic. In these experiences most of us can recall a very simple mental content, and can prove to our own satisfaction that there is such a thing as mere awareness, a consciousness probably close akin to that of the lower levels of animal ...
— Applied Psychology for Nurses • Mary F. Porter
... taken to the field dressing station where according to his own account his mangled leg was amputated without the use of any anesthetic. But that may have been because in such a time of stress they had none. Later he ...
— The Escape of a Princess Pat • George Pearson


Words linked to "Anesthetic" :   anesthetise, anesthesia, insensible, local anaesthetic, drug, general anaesthetic, topical anaesthetic, anesthetize, local, general anesthetic, anaesthetic, spinal anaesthetic


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