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adj. Relating to or resembling anesthesia.

adj. Causing anesthesia.

adj. Insensitive.

n. An agent that causes loss of sensation with or without the loss of consciousness.

n. Something likened to this in effect: For some people watching television is an anesthetic for the mind.

adj. Causing the reduction of pain sensitivity.

n. A substance administered to reduce the perception of pain or to induce numbness. An anesthetic may or may not render the recipient unconscious, depending upon the type used.

Producing temporary loss or impairment of feeling or sensation; producing anæsthesia.

Of or belonging to anæsthesia; characterized by anæsthesia, or physical insensibility: as, anesthetic effects.

n. A substance capable of producing anæsthesia.

n. a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations

adj. characterized by insensibility

adj. relating to or producing insensibility

"A local anesthetic is used prior to the procedure, and a mild anesthetic is often mixed into the injection fluid."

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