anesthetic

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With a colonoscopy, for instance, patients often receive an anesthetic, like propofol, or a narcotic such as Demerol or fentanyl, combined with anti-anxiety medication like Versed or Valium.

From New York Times

Hikma, which makes anesthetics, pain medications, sedatives, neuromuscular agents and other drugs, announced the deal in September as a way for it to strengthen its injectable treatments unit in the United States.

From Reuters

The suspect, 33, was arrested last week after an anesthetic drug was found in tissue samples of her 9-year-old, who died in January.

From Washington Post

When I slithered away and said no, he jammed a needle of anesthetic into my gum with so much force my jawbone ached for a week.

From New York Times

Georgina died in hospital and posthumous toxicology tests showed she had received ketamine, an anesthetic drug often used in animal surgeries, that had not been prescribed by her treating doctors.

From Reuters