anesthetize

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

From Washington Times ● Aug. 30, 2023

The researchers anesthetize the captured cats, give them a quick physical exam and fit them with GPS collars to track their movements.

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023

Now, their need to fill eight to 10 episodes means that you need to anesthetize yourself to plot glitches, meanderings and inconsistencies.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2022

Who is ever going to let him anesthetize them?

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2021

In fact, the vapors of chloroform, which anesthetize plants, also prevent nitrification, since they anaesthetize the nitric ferment.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 by Various

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

But within four or five days the venom seeps through his system and anesthetizes pain areas of his higher nerve centres.

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 anesthetized patients’ brains produced activity that shared similarities to being unconscious in a coma—as well as deep sleep, REM sleep and patterns unique to anesthesia.

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

During these checkups, the animals were anesthetized, and the radar system was hung about half a meter above their chest.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2024

Soon, with Gey anesthetized on the operating table, surgeons opened him up and found that the cancer was inoperable —growths covered his stomach, spleen, liver, and intestines.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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

Their faces, simultaneously melodramatic and numbed, reflect a strangely complex emotional truth, where the experiences of depression, anxiety, trauma and grief unfold amid an absurdist carnival of anesthetizing content and luxury products.

From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2021

By anesthetizing the same area he could stop immediately severe attacks of asthma and of coughing.

From Nature Cure by Lindlahr, Henry