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Anaesthetic
is always a great word to know.
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noun
1.
a substance that produces anesthesia, as halothane, procaine, or ether.
adjective
2.
pertaining to or causing physical insensibility: an anesthetic gas.
3.
physically insensitive: Halothane is used to produce an anesthetic state.
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Word Origin & History
anaesthetic
1846, "insensible," from Gk. anaisthetos "without feeling" (see anaesthesia). Noun meaning "agent that produces anesthesia" first used in modern sense 1848 by professor James Young Simpson (1811-1870), discoverer of chloroform.
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