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Anesthetic   /ˌænəsθˈɛtɪk/   Listen
noun
anaesthetic, anesthetic  n.  (Med.) A substance which produces anesthesia, as chloroform, ether, etc.



adjective
Anaesthetic, Anesthetic  adj.  (Med.)
(a)
Capable of causing anesthesia; as, anaesthetic agents.
(b)
Characterized by, or connected with, anesthesia; as, an anaesthetic effect or operation.



Anesthesia, Anesthetic  adj.  Same as Anaesthesia, Anaesthetic.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Anesthetic" Quotes from Famous Books



... resolution of which Blood's revelation would eliminate from the sphere of our duties, remains; but it remains as something to be met and dealt with by faculties more akin to our activities and heroisms and willingnesses, than to our logical powers. This is the anesthetic insight, according to our author. Let my last word, then, speaking in the name of intellectual philosophy, be his word.—"There is no conclusion. What has concluded, that we might conclude in regard to it? There are no fortunes to ...
— Memories and Studies • William James

... her, the Law stepped in, the coroner held an inquest, an autopsy was decided upon, and the result of it was a deeper and more amazing mystery than ever. She had died—but from what? Every organ was found to be in a thoroughly healthy condition. The heart was sound, the lungs betrayed no sign of an anesthetic, the blood and kidneys not the faintest trace of poison—everything about her was perfectly normal. She had not died through drugs, she had not died through strangulation, suffocation, electrical shock, or failure of the heart. She had not been stabbed, she had not been shot, she had not succumbed ...
— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces • Thomas W. Hanshew

... you to reconsider the anesthetic. I think you ought to be out for this one, completely out." The doctor's voice became a shade less professional. "I don't tell you how to run your perception experiments, I think you ought to let me judge what's best in the ...
— The Alternate Plan • Gerry Maddren

... pale and exhausted in appearance, her face drawn and bloodless, like that of one who wakes out of an anesthetic after a surgical operation upon some vital part. Her eyes were hollowed, her nostrils pinched, but there was no trace of tears upon her cheeks. The neighbors said it was dry grief, the deepest and most lasting that racks the human heart. They pitied her, so young and fair, so ...
— The Bondboy • George W. (George Washington) Ogden

... I'm talking about the thing that makes me tired. For you know as well as I do that you've made that boy of yours a sort of anesthetic. You put him on like a nose-cap, and forget the world. He's about all you remember to think about. Why, when you look at the clock, nowadays, it isn't ten minutes to twelve. It's always Dinkie minutes to Dink. When ...
— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer


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