anaesthetic
pronunciation
How to pronounce anaesthetic in British English:
UK [ˌænəsˈθetɪk]
How to pronounce anaesthetic in American English:
US [ˌænɪsˈθɛtɪk]
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- Noun:
- a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations
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- Adjective:
- characterized by insensibility
Word Origin
- anaesthetic (adj.)
- 1846, "insensible," from Greek anaisthetos "insensate, without feeling; senseless, stupid" (see anaesthesia). Noun meaning "agent that produces anesthesia" first used in modern sense 1848 by Scottish doctor James Young Simpson (1811-1870), discoverer of the surgical uses of chloroform.
Example
- 1. Jackson regularly received the anaesthetic propofol to go to sleep .
- 2. All of this happens in an operating theatre on site using equipment and anaesthetic the same as would be used in human brain surgery .
- 3. The operations , under anaesthetic , last around three hours .
- 4. I 'll first give you a shot of anaesthetic .
- 5. I mention that I had witnessed one client that day , a yoga fanatic , whose pain threshold was so high she didn 't have any anaesthetic cream .