- plural of anesthetic.
anesthetics
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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
He celebrated the wave of innovations that had enriched human existence—railroads, steamships, telegraphs, telephones, electric lights, anesthetics, antiseptics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
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
Al-Aqsa Martyrs has also been short on anesthetics, meaning surgeries and other procedures are frequently performed without painkillers.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
Improvements in anesthetics, and new drills and bone saws that allowed for precision cutting of the skull, made it possible.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
