anesthetic

• anaesthetic (British)
• anæsthetic (obsolete)
• anesthetical

From Ancient Greek ἀναίσθητος (anaísthētos, “insensible”), from ἀν- (an-, “un-”) + αἰσθητικός (aisthētikós, “perceptible”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌænəsˈθɛtɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɛtɪk

anesthetic (comparative more anesthetic, superlative most anesthetic)

1. (American spelling) Causing anesthesia; reducing pain sensitivity.

• anesthetically
• local anesthetic / local anaesthetic
• general anesthetic / general anaesthetic

• anesthesia
• anesthesiologic
• anesthesiological
• anesthesiology
• anesthetist
• anesthetize

anesthetic (plural anesthetics)

1. (American spelling, medicine) A substance administered to reduce the perception of pain or to induce numbness for surgery and may render the recipient unconscious.
   • 1994, Anesthetics (Ophthalmic) (original version), Drugs.com:

     After a local anesthetic is applied to the eye, do not rub or wipe the eye until the anesthetic has worn off and feeling in the eye returns.

   • 2004, Jacoby, David B. and Youngson, R. M., Encyclopedia of Family Health, Marshall Cavendish, pg. 91.

     Modern anesthetics can be divided into several different groups according to how and where they act to reduce pain.

     During premedication, the anesthetist may give a patient drugs that make him or her feel relaxed and drowsy before the actual general anesthetic is administered.

• "Anesthetics", 2010 MeSH, National Library of Medicine.

• chainettes, entheastic