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anesthesic

anesthesic is the alternative form of anesthetic.

Meaning of anesthetic

Adjective

anesthetic (comparative more anesthetic, superlative most anesthetic)

  1. (Canada, US) Causing anesthesia; reducing pain sensitivity.
  2. (Canada, US) Insensate: unable to feel, or unconscious.
    • (I find that he is analgesic and anaesthetic; evidently he is in a state of passive somnambulism.)
      E. A. Did you feel anybody touch you?
      K. No. There's no one near me. (He continues laughing and talking. […])1924, Maurice Walter Keatinge, Suggestion in Education

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Forms of anesthesic

alternative Commonwealthanaesthesic
alternative form (dated)anæsthesic

Questions about anesthesic

What is anesthesic the alternative form of?
Anesthesic is the alternative form of anesthetic.

Words near anesthesic in the dictionary

  1. Anes
  2. Aneses
  3. anesis
  4. anesthesia
  5. anesthesias
  6. anesthesic
  7. anesthesimeter
  8. anesthesimeters
  9. anesthesiologic
  10. anesthesiological
  11. anesthesiologist

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