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anesthetize

[uh-nes-thi-tahyz] / əˈnɛs θɪˌtaɪz /














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Zoo officials said the tragedy shows why decisions to anesthetize animals are not taken lightly.

From Washington Times Aug. 30, 2023

Dr. Angel Estrada, right, a veterinarian, and Brenda Arias, a veterinary student, anesthetize a horse undergoing surgery at a clinic in the community of Charco de Sierra in Guanajuato, Mexico.Credit...

From New York Times May 9, 2023

“We need to use our drug doses very carefully and make sure that we give them enough drugs to anesthetize them safely,” he said.

From Seattle Times Sep. 7, 2022

I remember, we were doing the scene where I anesthetize him.

From Salon Feb. 21, 2022

Two applications are usually sufficient completely to anesthetize the exterior and interior of the larynx by blocking of the superior laryngeal nerve without any endolaryngeal applications.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier

That’s not easy, since capybaras max out around 155 pounds; sometimes he anesthetizes them for the trip back to the river.

From Slate May 27, 2026

After several visits, Marx underwent a TAP block, an injection that anesthetizes the anterior abdominal wall.

From Washington Post Feb. 19, 2021

She anesthetizes the animals, carefully removes their brains, firms the brains up with formalin, freezes them, then shaves them into slices thinner than a strand of human hair to study under a microscope.

From Washington Post Jun. 16, 2013

Laughter is a wonder drug by which man anesthetizes his consciousness of mortality.

From Time Magazine Archive

Your wife has leprosy!—not the physical form, but the kind that anesthetizes, ulcerates, deforms the soul—the leprosy of self-pity.

From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Carroll, Robert S.

“The brain didn’t evolve to be anesthetized, so we want to understand how the brain comes back from it.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 3, 2026

Bogdan fears that by cleaning up Meridian Hill Park -- which is managed and maintained by the National Park Service -- its history as a place of Black protest and community will be anesthetized.

From Barron's May 19, 2026

To test the observation, they strapped pressure sensors around the bellies of lightly anesthetized mice and observed the brain when slight pressure was applied only to the abdominal muscles.

From Los Angeles Times May 7, 2026

For a more definitive proof, Xue worked with Josiah Boivin in the Nedivi lab to image neurons in the brain of a live, anesthetized mouse, using mosTF.

From Science Daily Jun. 4, 2024

Their own Jewish religion, their own rich Jewish ethnic and cultural roots, they anesthetized, and cut off. . . until they began thinking of themselves as ‘ ‘Germans.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

A team of expert divers guided each of the boys out of the cave on special stretchers after anesthetizing them to keep them calm enough to transport.

From Seattle Times Feb. 15, 2023

Sampling wild primates traditionally requires trapping and anesthetizing the animals.

From Science Magazine Jan. 5, 2023

The collective was founded by the composer-poet-pianist-conductor-essayist and former Los Angeles Opera artist in residence Matthew Aucoin and director Zack Winokur in 2017 as an occasional refuge from the artistically anesthetizing commercial classical music business.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2022

But at the same time, there were a few things shot by divers themselves, like Dr. Harris anesthetizing a child or the oxygen meter.

From Salon Oct. 8, 2021

If bronchoscopy is to be done the gauze swab is carried down through the exposed glottis to the carina, thus anesthetizing the tracheal mucosa.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier




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