anesthetic

English

Alternative forms

• anaesthetic (UK)
• anæsthetic (obsolete)
• anesthetical

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀναίσθητος (anaísthētos, “insensible”), from ἀν- (an-, “un-”) + αἰσθητικός (aisthētikós, “perceptible”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌænəsˈθɛtɪk/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛtɪk

Adjective

anesthetic (comparative more anesthetic, superlative most anesthetic)

1. (American spelling) Causing anesthesia; reducing pain sensitivity.

Derived terms

• anesthetically
• local anesthetic / local anaesthetic
• general anesthetic / general anaesthetic

Related terms

• anesthesia
• anesthesiologic
• anesthesiological
• anesthesiology
• anesthetist
• anesthetize

Translations

reducing pain sensitivity

• Catalan: anestèsic
• Czech: anestetický
• Danish: anestetisk, bedøvende
• Dutch: verdovend (nl)
• Esperanto: anesteza
• Finnish: anesteettinen (fi)
• French: anesthésique (fr)
• German: anästhetisch, betäubend (de)
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• Hungarian: érzéstelenítő (hu)
• Interlingue:
• Irish: ainéistéiseach
• Italian: anestetico (it)
• Portuguese: anestésico
• Russian: анестези́рующий (ru) (anɛstɛzíruyuščij), обезбо́ливающий (ru) (obezbólivajuščij)
• Slovak: anestetický (sk)
• Spanish: anestésico

Noun

anesthetic (plural anesthetics)

1. (American spelling, medicine) A substance administered to reduce the perception of pain or to induce numbness for surgery and may render the recipient unconscious.
   • 1994, Anesthetics (Ophthalmic) (original version), Drugs.com:

     After a local anesthetic is applied to the eye, do not rub or wipe the eye until the anesthetic has worn off and feeling in the eye returns.

   • 2004, Jacoby, David B. and Youngson, R. M., Encyclopedia of Family Health, Marshall Cavendish, pg. 91.

     Modern anesthetics can be divided into several different groups according to how and where they act to reduce pain.

     During premedication, the anesthetist may give a patient drugs that make him or her feel relaxed and drowsy before the actual general anesthetic is administered.

Translations

a substance for the reduced perception of pain

• Arabic: مُخَدِّر m (muḵaddir)

  Egyptian Arabic: بنج m (beng)

• Bulgarian: обезболяващ (bg) (obezboljavašt)
• Catalan: anestèsic m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: anestetikum (cs) n
• Danish: bedøvelse c, bedøvelsesmiddel c
• Dutch: verdoving (nl) f
• Esperanto: anestezilo
• Finnish: anesteetti (fi), nukutusaine (fi), puudutusaine
• French: anesthésie (fr) f
• Galician: anestésico m
• German: Anästhetikum (de) n, Betäubungsmittel (de) n, Narkosemittel (de) n, Narkotikum (de) n
• Greek: αναισθητικό (el) n (anaisthitikó)
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• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: érzéstelenítő (hu), érzéstelenítő szer
• Icelandic: deyfilyf n
• Interlingue:
• Inuktitut: ᐃᑉᐱᓐᓂᐊᒍᓐᓃᕐᔪᑎ (ippinniaconniiryoti)
• Irish: ainéistéiseach m
• Japanese: 麻酔 (ja) (masui), 麻酔薬 (masuiyaku)
• Maori: rongoā whakamoe (general), rongoā whakakēkerewai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bedøvelse (no) m, bedøvelsesmiddel n

• Polish: anestetyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: anestesia (pt) f, anestésico m
• Russian: обезбо́ливающее (ru) n (obezbólivajuščeje)
• Serbo-Croatian: anestetik (sh) m
• Slovak: anestetikum
• Spanish: anestésico m
• Swedish: smärtstillande (sv), bedövningsmedel (sv), anestetikum (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

References

• "Anesthetics", 2010 MeSH, National Library of Medicine.

Anagrams

• chainettes, entheastic