anesthetist

American  

[uh-nes-thi-tist] / əˈnɛs θɪ tɪst /

Or anaesthetist

noun

1. a person who administers anesthetics, usually a specially trained doctor or nurse.

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anesthetist British  

/ əˈnɛsθətɪst /

noun

1. (in the US) a person qualified to administer anaesthesia, often a nurse or someone other than a physician Compare anesthesiologist

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Etymology

Origin of anesthetist

First recorded in 1880–85; anesthet(ize) + -ist

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• anesthetist vs. anesthesiologist

Example Sentences

Anesthetist Sokol Hajdini was sentenced to three years in prison and two other defendants received one-year suspended sentences.

From Reuters • Apr. 29, 2013

The pain-contorted Brooklyn man was a patient of Anesthetist Marius Bohdan Greene.

From Time Magazine Archive

Five years ago, Anesthetist John Henry Evans of Buffalo began to inject oxygen under the skin of swollen joints, to dull pain.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mattoon's police commissioner, as alarmed by this display of armament as by the depredations of the Anesthetist, pleaded with the vigilantes to disband.

From Time Magazine Archive

Anesthetist has exposed the larynx and is about to introduce the silk-woven catheter.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier