anaesthetics

/ (ˌænɪsˈθɛtɪks) /

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noun

(functioning as singular) the science, study, and practice of anaesthesia and its applicationUS name: anesthesiology

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It was before the days of anaesthetics, which relieve all of these inconveniences, and above all, relax the muscles.
Health Through Will Power|James J. Walsh
He was found of aesthetics and anaesthetics, and his chief interests in life were beauty and his big bills.
Ptomaine Street|Carolyn Wells
The greater number of deaths occur during the administration of anaesthetics, which seem peculiarly dangerous to these subjects.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 2|Various
And so kindly Nature had lessened the pangs he was suffering, and made him able to bear to the end by her own anaesthetics.
The Day of Judgment|Joseph Hocking

The exquisite pain and suffering endured previous to the use of anaesthetics often caused death by exhaustion.
Inventions in the Century|William Henry Doolittle

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