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local anesthetic

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  1. An anesthetic that causes loss of sensation only to the area to which it is applied. (Compare general anesthetic.)

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Local anesthetic properties belong to all the agents in which the general have been found.

From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various

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