anesthetic
☆ an·es·thetic (an′es t̸het′ik, an′is-)
adjective
- relating to, with, or characterized by anesthesia
- producing anesthesia
Etymology: < Gr anaisthētos + -ic
noun
a drug, gas, etc. used to produce anesthesia, as before surgery
anesthetic to
incapable of feeling or responding to
anesthetic
n.
Specific anesthetics include: benzocaine, lidocaine, Novocain (trademark), methyl chloride, oil of clove, ether, chloroform, cocaine, sodium pentothal, truth serum, chloral hydrate, nitrous oxide, laughing gas, morphine, procaine, alcohol, scopolamine;
Converse of object
- use: The pretend dentist was known to pitch his booth next to a show band; he never used an anesthetic.
- have: Then he told me: " I have no anesthetic.
- give: Whatever the mechanisms behind it, could hypnosis replace a significant number of the 100 million general anesthetics given worldwide each year?
- receive: As in anyone who receives a general anesthetic, polio survivors can develop nausea and vomit.
- administer: Anesthetics administered for surgery present their own risks, and are a very important factor when unnecessary surgeries are considered.
- require: General anesthetics Sometimes surgery or an investigation requiring a general anesthetic is unavoidable in withdrawal.
Adjective modifier
- general: Doing away with a general anesthetics means patients can recover more quickly.
- local: The drugs are given by injection into the eye under local anesthetic, in a clean environment.
- topical: To do this, the back of the throat is sprayed with a topical anesthetic to soothe the nerves causing the gag reflex.
- new: So a new anesthetic was needed that was not so dangerous to use The story does not end happily, however.
- epidural: A further series from Zimbabwe reported 500 pediatric caudal epidural anesthetics.
- spinal: If a spinal anesthetic is used, polio survivors cannot be expected to get up and walk after surgery.
Modifies a noun
- agent: Robert M. Julien: " Occasionally, certain anesthetic agents become misused drugs.
- effect: However, contamination is rarely a problem, and the anesthetic effect is modest.
- solution: If the local anesthetic solution can be injected with little resistance, it is mostly likely in the correct space.
- property: Its anesthetic properties could make you unaware how seriousness an injury may be.
- dose: It is important to strictly follow the guidelines of local anesthetic dose given in table 2.
- machine: As a hospital engineer I helped to redesign the anesthetic machine used in the operating theater.
Preposition: in
- dentistry: Nitrous Oxide as an Anesthetic Nitrous oxide found a more scientific use as an anesthetic in clinical dentistry and medicine in the early 1840s.
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