- a variation of anesthetic.
anaesthetic
Britishnoun
adjective
Example Sentences
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The operation is normally carried out under general anaesthetic with the patient breathing through a tube.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
It dodged capture despite efforts by hunters and responders equipped with traps and anaesthetic guns, and escaped late Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
At the 2022 French Open, the pain in Nadal's foot was so bad that he asked Dr Angel Ruiz-Cotorro to put the sensory nerve to sleep with targeted anaesthetic injections.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
Ketamine is used legitimately in human and veterinary medicine as an anaesthetic, for pain relief and more recently to manage treatment-resistant depression.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026
Another doctor in a mask gave the anaesthetic.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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