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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : an-uh s-thee-zhuh |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌæn əsˈθi ʒə |
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Définition of anaesthetics
Origin :- 1721, "loss of feeling," Modern Latin, from Greek anaisthesia "want of feeling, lack of sensation (to pleasure or pain)," from an- "without" (see an- (1)) + aisthesis "feeling," from PIE root *au- "to perceive" (see audience). As "a procedure for the prevention of pain in surgical operations," from 1846.
- noun sleep-inducing or numbing drug
- With anaesthetics this state of things at any rate was changed.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 7 » by Various
- The operation has been rendered painless by the use of anaesthetics.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 » by Various
- We did not know its value as an anodyne, for we had no need of anaesthetics of any kind.
- Extract from : « I Walked in Arden » by Jack Crawford
- The man was too far gone, indeed, to justify the use of anaesthetics, yet without them Dick feared to proceed.
- Extract from : « The Adventures of Dick Maitland » by Harry Collingwood
- It was before the days of anaesthetics, which relieve all of these inconveniences, and above all, relax the muscles.
- Extract from : « Health Through Will Power » by James J. Walsh
- The application of anaesthetics was another thing fully explained by Gys, but this could not be demonstrated.
- Extract from : « Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross » by Edith Van Dyne
- What the sufferings of these wretched men must have been, without antiseptics or anaesthetics, is terrible to think of.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill
- There was an overpowering odor of anaesthetics in the room although the windows had been thrown wide open.
- Extract from : « Aladdin of London » by Sir Max Pemberton
- Little Gordon 'came into the world without the assistance of surgery or anaesthetics.'
- Extract from : « The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
- The smell of anaesthetics somehow reminded him of the library in the house at the corner of St. James' Square.
- Extract from : « The Illustrious Prince » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
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