- a variation of anesthetic.
anaesthetic
Britishnoun
adjective
Example Sentences
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Anaesthetic nurse Gerry Paclejan said the endotracheal tube was secured loosely to the side of the trolley with a tourniquet.
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2022
Anaesthetic drugs and a surgical doctor's operating equipment were also found at his house, police say.
From BBC • Sep. 22, 2015
Anaesthetic and then muscle relaxant administered as the patient is given manual ventilation to oxygenate their system and hyper inflate lungs.
From BBC • Jul. 24, 2013
But in translating Local Anaesthetic, Manheim had tremendous trouble with the highly technical language of dentistry used by Grass, who has made a study of the subject.
From Time Magazine Archive
And in all this pain of transition, what is the Divine Anaesthetic that He gives us?
From The Romance of the Soul by Staveley, Lilian
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