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Anaesthetic

noun
1.
A drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations.  Synonyms: anaesthetic agent, anesthetic, anesthetic agent.
adjective
1.
Relating to or producing insensibility.  Synonym: anesthetic.
2.
Characterized by insensibility.  Synonym: anesthetic.  "An anesthetic state"



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"Anaesthetic" Quotes from Famous Books



... muzzled, handcuffed, and Under the anaesthetic of unreality and indifference to be a satisfactory husband for a ...
— The Gorgeous Girl • Nalbro Bartley

... young children below the age of ten or twelve, the Jewish operation, as modified and done in accordance with the dictates of modern surgery, will be found the most expedient. By this method we avoid the need of any anaesthetic agents, which are more or less dangerous with children, as well as the need of sutures, which are painful of adjustment and very annoying to remove in those little fellows who dread new harm; there is also ...
— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino

... aside for the next candidate, ether, discovered in the United States also, but far interior to the nitrous oxide as a safe and pleasant agent. This was largely superseded by chloroform, discovered much earlier by Liebig and others, but introduced as an anaesthetic in 1847, by Prof. Simpson. This proved to be the most powerful and dangerous of all. Thus the whole policy of the medical profession was to discourage the safe, and encourage the more dangerous agents. The magnetic sleep, the most perfect of all anaesthetic agents, ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 - Volume 1, Number 8 • Various

... The anaesthetic fails before the operation is completed: consciousness returns and becomes aware of atrocious pain and blood-soaked busy instruments. Yet by Grace of God the mind and soul are able immediately to ...
— The Prodigal Returns • Lilian Staveley

... performed in a few minutes, almost painlessly with the use of cocain as a local anaesthetic; it is sometimes performed with no anaesthetic whatever. The patient's sexual life is not affected in any way, save in the one respect ...
— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson


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