anesthetic
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌænəsˈθɛtɪk/, /ˌænəsˈtɛtɪk/
anesthetic
- (American spelling) Causing anesthesia; reducing pain sensitivity.
- French: anesthésique
- German: anästhetisch, betäubend
- Italian: anestetico
- Portuguese: anestésico
- Russian: анестези́рующий
- Spanish: anestésico
anesthetic (plural anesthetics)
- (American spelling, medicine) A substance administered to reduce the perception of pain or to induce numbness for surgery and may render the recipient unconscious.
- 1994, [https://www.webcitation.org/5r6M1Zk8d?url=http://www.drugs.com/cons/anesthetics-ophthalmic.html Anesthetics (Ophthalmic)] (original version ↗), Drugs.com:
- After a local anesthetic is applied to the eye, do not rub or wipe the eye until the anesthetic has worn off and feeling in the eye returns.
- 2004, Jacoby, David B. and Youngson, R. M., Encyclopedia of Family Health ↗, Marshall Cavendish, pg. 91.
- Modern anesthetics can be divided into several different groups according to how and where they act to reduce pain.
- During premedication, the anesthetist may give a patient drugs that make him or her feel relaxed and drowsy before the actual general anesthetic is administered.
- 1994, [https://www.webcitation.org/5r6M1Zk8d?url=http://www.drugs.com/cons/anesthetics-ophthalmic.html Anesthetics (Ophthalmic)] (original version ↗), Drugs.com:
- French: anesthésie
- German: Anästhetikum, Betäubungsmittel, Narkosemittel, Narkotikum
- Portuguese: anestesia, anestésico
- Russian: обезбо́ливающее
- Spanish: anestésico
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