anesthetic
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Dr. Muhsen Abdullah, the surgeon who heads the emergency room, spoke with a weary tone of a ward without surgical thread or stitches, and anesthesiologists forced to ask patients to purchase their own anesthetic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
She was once so desperate for a stress remedy that she got an anesthetic injection in her neck that is meant to block sympathetic nerves and provide a temporary sense of calm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
A local anesthetic provides some relief, but providers still recommend taking ibuprofen shortly before your appointment.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2024
According to the guidelines, the topical anesthetic lidocaine “might be useful for reducing patient pain” when injected as a local anesthetic or applied topically as a numbing gel, cream or spray.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2024
Alex stayed right by Rex’s side through the whole exam, holding him while the vet irrigated the wound and stroking his paw when the doctor injected the cut with anesthetic.
From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers
Israel struck the Tofigh Daru Research & Engineering Co., one of Iran’s largest pharmaceutical companies which produces anesthetics and cancer drugs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Their findings are detailed in the paper 'Growth in production and environmental deposition of trifluoroacetic acid due to long-lived CFC replacements and anesthetics'.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2026
The reason, its authors wrote, was that “we had no data available on analgesics or possible local anesthetics used during ritual circumcisions in our cohort, so we were unable to address the paracetamol hypothesis directly.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
Les spent long hours in the surgical theater, which in Macclesfield had little in the way of ventilation, and Joy typically found that he came home smelling of anesthetics, antiseptics and blood.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2024
But if the doctor did the same procedure without anesthetics in a modern hospital, it would be very cruel indeed.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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