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novocaine

novocaine is the alternative letter-case form of Novocaine.

Proper noun capitalized: Novocaine

Novocaine

  1. The commercial name of procaine, a common painkiller drug.
    • Novocaine for the soul / You'd better give me something / To fill the hole / Before I sputter out1996, “Novocaine for the Soul”, in Mark Oliver Everett, Mark Goldenberg (lyrics), Beautiful Freak, performed by Eels
    • Novocaine, baby, I want you / Fuck me good, fuck me long, fuck me numb2011, “Novacane”, in nostalgia,ULTRA, performed by Frank Ocean
    Synonyms:
    procaine

Synonyms of novocaine

Forms of novocaine

Noun
pluralnovocaines
Proper noun
alternative formNovocain
alternative formnovocaine
alternative form (dated)novocain

Origin of novocaine

From Latin novellus (“new”) + English -caine.

Words formed from novocaine

Questions about novocaine

What does novocaine mean?
Novocaine means the commercial name of procaine, a common painkiller drug.
What is novocaine the alternative letter-case form of?
Novocaine is the alternative letter-case form of Novocaine.
What part of speech is novocaine?
Novocaine is a proper noun.

Words near novocaine in the dictionary

  1. Novoas
  2. Novoazovsk
  3. novobiocin
  4. novobiocins
  5. novocain
  6. novocaine
  7. novocaines
  8. Novocastrian
  9. Novocastrians
  10. novocentenary
  11. Novocheboksarsk

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