ANAESTHETIC
\ˌanəsθˈɛtɪk], \ˌanəsθˈɛtɪk], \ˌa_n_ə_s_θ_ˈɛ_t_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of ANAESTHETIC
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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characterized by insensibility; "the young girls are in a state of possession--blind and deaf and anesthetic"; "an anesthetic state"
By Princeton University
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characterized by insensibility; "the young girls are in a state of possession--blind and deaf and anesthetic"; "an anesthetic state"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Characterized by, or connected with, insensibility; as, an anaesthetic effect or operation.
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That which produces insensibility to pain, as chloroform, ether, etc.
By Oddity Software
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Characterized by, or connected with, insensibility; as, an anaesthetic effect or operation.
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That which produces insensibility to pain, as chloroform, ether, etc.
By Noah Webster.
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Producing insensibility.
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A substance, as chloroform, that produces insensibility.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Relating to privation of feeling, as an "ancesthetic agent;" one that prevents feeling. The term is, now, almost restricted to agents, which produce such effect by being received into the lungs in the form of vapours or gases, and passing with the blood to the nervous centres on which their action is exerted. Perhaps, as a general rule, the intellectual faculties first feel their influence,-a sort of intoxication supervening, with imperfect power of regulating the movements; the sensory ganglia become afterwards or simultaneously affected, sensation and motion are suspended, and ultimately, if the quantity inhaled be sufficient, the medulla oblongata has its actions suspended or destroyed, respiration ceases, and death is the consequence. Different agents have been used as anaesthetics by way of inhalation-sulphuric ether, chloroform, chloric ether, compound ether, chlorohydric and nitric ethers, bisulphuret of carbon, chloride of olefiant gas, benzin, aldehyde, light coal-tar naphtha, &c.; but the first four are alone employed. They have been, and are, greatly used in serious surgical operations, and during parturition; and in such cases, as well as in many diseases, especially of a painful nature, produce the most beneficial results.
By Robley Dunglison
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n. That which produces insensibility, as chloroform, &c.
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