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Definition of Anesthetics
1. anesthetic [n] - See also: anesthetic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anesthetics
Literary usage of Anesthetics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern surgery, general and operative by John Chalmers Da Costa (1910)
"ANESTHESIA AND anesthetics. Anesthesia is a condition of insensibility or loss
... I have seen anesthetics (particularly ether) given many thousand times. ..."
2. Therapeutics: Its Principles and Practice by Horatio Charles Wood (1908)
"anesthetics. THE term anesthetics is here employed as the name of a group of
volatile substances, whose vapor has the power of producing loss of ..."
3. Medical Jurisprudence: A Statement of the Law of Forensic Medicine by Elmer De Witt Brothers (1914)
"anesthetics. Definition.—Anesthesia means a loss of sensibility to external ...
Kinds of anesthetics.—There are two principal groups of anesthetics when ..."
4. A Text-book of materia medica, therapeutics and pharmacology by George Frank Butler (1898)
"anesthetics. As heretofore defined, these are substances having the property of
destroying sensation, or producing anesthesia, either general or local. ..."
5. Dental materia medica and therapeutics by Hermann Prinz (1917)
"Local anesthetics (without pain) are agents which are employed for the purpose of
... Primary, or true local, anesthetics are those which act at once on the ..."
6. Nursing in Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat by Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital, Jabez Edward Giles, Harmon Smith, David Henry Webster (1910)
"anesthetics It is well for the nurse to understand in a general way the rules
governing the administration of anesthetics and the after-treatment of ..."
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