Word.ws English Dictionary

proxymetacaine

proxymetacaine noun: a topical anesthetic drug of the aminoester group.

Noun

proxymetacaine (uncountable)

  1. A topical anesthetic drug of the aminoester group.
    Synonyms:
    proparacaine

Synonyms of proxymetacaine

Origin of proxymetacaine

From pro(p)oxy + meta-(amino) + -caine (“local anesthetic”).

Questions about proxymetacaine

What does proxymetacaine mean?
Proxymetacaine means a topical anesthetic drug of the aminoester group.
What part of speech is proxymetacaine?
Proxymetacaine is a noun.

Words near proxymetacaine in the dictionary

  1. proxyl
  2. proxyle
  3. proxylem
  4. proxyless
  5. proxyls
  6. proxymetacaine
  7. proxyphylline
  8. proxyship
  9. Proyet
  10. Prozac
  11. Prozacked

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: proxymetacaine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “proxymetacaine.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/proxymetacaine. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.