Anaesthetic
noun
A substance that causes loss of feeling to stop pain.
The dentist gave me an anaesthetic before he began the extraction.
Often appears as...
- local anaesthetic
- general anaesthetic
adjective
Related to substances that remove sensation or pain.
The anaesthetic effects of the drug started to wear off after an hour.
Often appears as...
- anaesthetic cream
- anaesthetic injection
noun
Something dull and uninspiring.
The seminar was a mind-numbing anaesthetic that was hard to sit through.
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A substance that causes loss of feeling to stop pain.
The dentist gave me an anaesthetic before he began the extraction.
Often appears as...
- local anaesthetic
- general anaesthetic
adjective
Related to substances that remove sensation or pain.
The anaesthetic effects of the drug started to wear off after an hour.
Often appears as...
- anaesthetic cream
- anaesthetic injection
noun
Something dull and uninspiring.
The seminar was a mind-numbing anaesthetic that was hard to sit through.
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Pain Control
Anaesthetics are used for pain control during medical procedures.
Before stitching the wound, the doctor applied an anaesthetic.
Pro Tip 2/3Variety of Forms
Anaesthetics can be gases, liquids, or creams depending on the application needed.
For a minor surgery, the nurse applied an anaesthetic cream.
Pro Tip 3/3Level of Consciousness
General anaesthetics make you unconscious, while local anaesthetics do not.
The local anaesthetic numbed my tooth without making me sleepy.
Pro Tip 1/3Pain Control
Anaesthetics are used for pain control during medical procedures.
Before stitching the wound, the doctor applied an anaesthetic.
Pro Tip 2/3Variety of Forms
Anaesthetics can be gases, liquids, or creams depending on the application needed.
For a minor surgery, the nurse applied an anaesthetic cream.
Pro Tip 3/3Level of Consciousness
General anaesthetics make you unconscious, while local anaesthetics do not.
The local anaesthetic numbed my tooth without making me sleepy.
Pro Tip 1/3Pain Control
Anaesthetics are used for pain control during medical procedures.
Before stitching the wound, the doctor applied an anaesthetic.
Pro Tip 2/3Variety of Forms
Anaesthetics can be gases, liquids, or creams depending on the application needed.
For a minor surgery, the nurse applied an anaesthetic cream.
Pro Tip 3/3Level of Consciousness
General anaesthetics make you unconscious, while local anaesthetics do not.
The local anaesthetic numbed my tooth without making me sleepy.
Never forget "Anaesthetic"
Humans forget easily. That's why you should download WordUp: Smart reminders, word games, AI practice, and much more!
Video examples
How does your brain...
targeting different systems. For mild pain, non-prescription medications can act on cells where the pain signals start. Other stronger pain medicines and anesthetics work by reducing the activity in pain-sensing circuits or boosting our coping system, or endorphins. Some people can cope with pain using methods that involve
Video examples
A brain in a supercompute...
We make a decision it's that big, even though it's not that big. And what that illustrates is that decisions are the key things that support our perceptual bubble. It keeps it alive. Without decisions you cannot see, you cannot think, you cannot feel. And you may think that anesthetics work
Video examples
How does anesthesia...
including the brain. That's what inhalational anesthetics do. In Western medicine, diethyl ether was the first common one. It was best known as a recreational drug until doctors started to realize that people sometimes didn't notice injuries they received under the influence.
Video examples
Asking where consciousnes...
your conscious awareness when surgery is over we turn off the anesthetic we wash all that drug out of your brain and we watch your consciousness reassemble itself so I decided why not watch this in the operating room so I decided to measure and observe my brain my patients
Video examples
Could a drug prevent...
ketamine, which also goes by another name, Special K, which is a club drug and drug of abuse. It's still used across the world as an anesthetic. It's used in children. We use it on the battlefield. It's actually the drug of choice in a lot of developing nations,
Video examples
The mystery of chronic...
quiet and we put them to sleep with local anesthetics and most importantly what we do is we use a rigorous and often uncomfortable process of physical therapy and occupational therapy to retrain the nerves in the nervous system
Video examples
Bed Bugs PIPE National...
to stay alive and breed and mother nature is on the side of the bed bug the bug administers an anesthetic so you don't wake up as well as an anticoagulant so your vital life essence will gush freely from your veins and
Video examples
Teeth Chiseling PIPE...
be an easier job for me as well for outsiders using crude implements for dental surgery and without anesthetic would be out of the question the procedure will also damage polanyi's teeth shortening their life
Video examples
Your brain hallucinates...
Just over a year ago, for the third time in my life, I ceased to exist. I was having a small operation, and my brain was filling with anesthetic.
Video examples
Young Lioness Saved from...
the darting anesthetic fails to work properly and flip has to go out on a limb to give her a booster
Video examples
How does your brain...
targeting different systems. For mild pain, non-prescription medications can act on cells where the pain signals start. Other stronger pain medicines and anesthetics work by reducing the activity in pain-sensing circuits or boosting our coping system, or endorphins. Some people can cope with pain using methods that involve
Video examples
A brain in a supercompute...
We make a decision it's that big, even though it's not that big. And what that illustrates is that decisions are the key things that support our perceptual bubble. It keeps it alive. Without decisions you cannot see, you cannot think, you cannot feel. And you may think that anesthetics work
Video examples
How does anesthesia...
including the brain. That's what inhalational anesthetics do. In Western medicine, diethyl ether was the first common one. It was best known as a recreational drug until doctors started to realize that people sometimes didn't notice injuries they received under the influence.
Video examples
Asking where consciousnes...
your conscious awareness when surgery is over we turn off the anesthetic we wash all that drug out of your brain and we watch your consciousness reassemble itself so I decided why not watch this in the operating room so I decided to measure and observe my brain my patients
Video examples
Could a drug prevent...
ketamine, which also goes by another name, Special K, which is a club drug and drug of abuse. It's still used across the world as an anesthetic. It's used in children. We use it on the battlefield. It's actually the drug of choice in a lot of developing nations,
Video examples
The mystery of chronic...
quiet and we put them to sleep with local anesthetics and most importantly what we do is we use a rigorous and often uncomfortable process of physical therapy and occupational therapy to retrain the nerves in the nervous system
Video examples
Bed Bugs PIPE National...
to stay alive and breed and mother nature is on the side of the bed bug the bug administers an anesthetic so you don't wake up as well as an anticoagulant so your vital life essence will gush freely from your veins and
Video examples
Teeth Chiseling PIPE...
be an easier job for me as well for outsiders using crude implements for dental surgery and without anesthetic would be out of the question the procedure will also damage polanyi's teeth shortening their life
Video examples
Your brain hallucinates...
Just over a year ago, for the third time in my life, I ceased to exist. I was having a small operation, and my brain was filling with anesthetic.
Video examples
Young Lioness Saved from...
the darting anesthetic fails to work properly and flip has to go out on a limb to give her a booster
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Jonathan Kozol
American Writer
The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.
Quote examples
Tyler Perry
American Actor
What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.
Quote examples
Tim Henman
British Tennis Player
When I was 28, my wisdom teeth were coming through and I had all four out under general anaesthetic. I remember friends who'd had terrible experiences, but my teeth were removed at 8am and I ate steak and chips for lunch that day.
Quote examples
Joan Rivers
American Comedian
With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what death is - without waking up to someone clapping and going, 'Joan, wake up, it's all over and you're looking pretty'.
Quote examples
Johnny Colt
American Musician
Oil's in everything we have, from anesthetics to aspirations to aspirins to most parts of the cell phone contain oil. We interface with oil in every part of our life.
Quote examples
Rose Macaulay
English Novelist
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
Quote examples
Sylvia Plath
American Poet
Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
Quote examples
Frank Leahy
American Coach
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Quote examples
Cesare Pavese
Italian Poet
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
Quote examples
John Oliver
British Comedian
There is no greater anesthetic than sport.
Quote examples
Jonathan Kozol
American Writer
The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.
Quote examples
Tyler Perry
American Actor
What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.
Quote examples
Tim Henman
British Tennis Player
When I was 28, my wisdom teeth were coming through and I had all four out under general anaesthetic. I remember friends who'd had terrible experiences, but my teeth were removed at 8am and I ate steak and chips for lunch that day.
Quote examples
Joan Rivers
American Comedian
With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what death is - without waking up to someone clapping and going, 'Joan, wake up, it's all over and you're looking pretty'.
Quote examples
Johnny Colt
American Musician
Oil's in everything we have, from anesthetics to aspirations to aspirins to most parts of the cell phone contain oil. We interface with oil in every part of our life.
Quote examples
Rose Macaulay
English Novelist
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
Quote examples
Sylvia Plath
American Poet
Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
Quote examples
Frank Leahy
American Coach
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Quote examples
Cesare Pavese
Italian Poet
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
Quote examples
John Oliver
British Comedian
There is no greater anesthetic than sport.
Example 1 of 10
WordUp Chrome Extension
As you browse the web instantly look up words you don’t know.
Get Chrome Extension