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anaesthetic

/ ˌænɪsˈθɛtɪk /

noun

  1. a substance that causes anaesthesia
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. causing or characterized by anaesthesia
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

Ketamine has long been approved in the US as an anaesthetic.

From Quartz

Corydon promptly did so, and another doctor who was to administer the anaesthetic came to her side.

In the early part of the war particularly many a young man had to face even serious operations without an anaesthetic.

He replied that he would be ready for the operation at the time suggested, but that he would not take an anaesthetic.

Arnald also revived the search for some anaesthetic that would produce insensibility to pain in surgical operations.

The involuntary start that shook the pine cone from his hand freed Phil's nostrils of the anaesthetic.

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