- the usual US spelling of anaesthetic
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
an•es•thet•ic /ˌænəsˈθɛtɪk/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
adj.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- Drugsa substance that produces anesthesia.
adj.
- Drugs, Medicineof, relating to, or causing anesthesia:an anesthetic drug.
an•es•thet•ic
(an′əs thet′ik),USA pronunciation n.
adj.
an′es•thet′i•cal•ly, adv.
- Drugsa substance that produces anesthesia, as halothane, procaine, or ether.
adj.
- Drugs, Medicinepertaining to or causing physical insensibility:an anesthetic gas.
- Medicinephysically insensitive:Halothane is used to produce an anesthetic state.Also, anaesthetic.
- Greek anaísthēt(os) without feeling, senseless + -ic; see an-1, esthetic
- 1840–50, American.
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a substance that causes anaesthesia
causing or characterized by anaesthesia
'anesthetic' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Morton
- Wells
- anaesthetic
- anesthesimeter
- anesthetize
- benzocaine
- bupivacaine
- caudal
- caudal anesthesia
- chloralose
- chloroform
- cocaine
- cyclopropane
- denervate
- dibucaine
- droperidol
- enflurane
- epidural anesthesia
- ether
- etherize
- ethyl chloride
- ethylene
- eucaine
- gas
- general
- guaiacol
- hyperbaric
- hypobaric
- isoflurane
- ketamine
- lidocaine
- local
- methohexital
- methoxyflurane
- methyl chloride
- methylene chloride
- nerve block
- nitrous oxide
- pentane
- phenacaine
- phencyclidine
- preanesthetic
- procaine
- spinal
- tetracaine
- thiopental sodium
- topical
- tribromoethanol
- under
- vinyl ether