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Definition of Anaesthetics
1. anaesthetic [n] - See also: anaesthetic
Medical Definition of Anaesthetics
1. Agents that are capable of inducing a total or partial loss of sensation, especially tactile sensation and pain. They may act to induce general anaesthesia, in which an unconscious state is achieved, or may act locally to induce numbness or lack of sensation at a targeted site. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anaesthetics
Literary usage of Anaesthetics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1886)
"Huch a series of papers upon anaesthetics written by men selected, as especially
fitted for the purpose, by a society so high in standing and so fruitful in ..."
2. Pye's Surgical Handicraft: A Manual of Surgical Manipulations, Minor Surgery by Walter Pye (1893)
"Administrator of anaesthetics to St. Bartholomews CHAPTER XXX. c»«>«»i<-«n-
ANESTHETICS are administered to patients to prevent •!n«>»ii!i-uc«. diminution ..."
3. Materia medica for nurses by Aaron Samuel Blumgarten (1920)
"CHAPTER XVIII GENERAL anaesthetics anaesthetics are drugs used to produce ...
The anaesthetics are divided into two groups: 1. General anaesthetics 2. ..."
4. Lectures on materia medica and therapeutics by John Brodhead Beck, Chandler Robbins Gilman (1861)
"After suitable sanguineous depletion, anaesthetics may be tried with the best
... Here the caution as to the administration of anaesthetics immediately ..."
5. A Textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics, or, the Action of drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1906)
"General anaesthetics — Ether and Chloroform. The term general anaesthetics is
employed to indicate substances used to produce unconsciousness sufficiently ..."
6. Therapeutics: Its Principles and Practice by Horatio Charles Wood (1900)
"The action of anaesthetics may be modified by the injection of narcotics. ...
The chief purposes for which anaesthetics are used are to relieve pain and to ..."
7. American Journal of Dental Science by American Society of Dental Surgeons (1890)
"anaesthetics IN DENTAL PRACTICE.—In The Journal of March we noticed editorially
a case of death from chloroform in a dentist's chair. ..."
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