anesthetic

IPA: ænʌsθˈɛtɪk

(American spelling, medicine) A substance administered to reduce the perception of pain or to induce numbness for surgery and may render the recipient unconscious.

Examples of "anesthetic" in Sentences

The dose of general anesthetic is kept to a minimum until the baby is delivered.
Not no, she didn’t have any, but no, she does not understand the word anesthetic.
Depending on the age of the child, either a local or general anesthetic is used during the eye examination.
A local anesthetic is used prior to the procedure, and a mild anesthetic is often mixed into the injection fluid.
The right anesthetic is tailored between you, doctors and pertinent surgical issues (such as time length of surgery).
To perform the procedure, a local anesthetic is used to numb the skin on the abdomen, and a needle is inserted into the womb to remove some amniotic fluid.
A footnote in a 1968 review made note of a drug called Sernyl, a short-term anesthetic developed by Parke, Davis for field use by the military but abandoned because, when overadministered, it had produced psychiatric symptoms.
The sought after substance is sodium thiopental, the short-term anesthetic that is administered to the condemned inmate before the other two drugs that will eventually provide the inmate with a comfortable transition to the hereafter are administered.