Anesthetic | Mean of anesthetic in English Dictionary
/ˌænəsˈθɛtɪk/
- Noun
- a drug that causes a person to lose feeling and to feel no pain in part or all of the body
- The doctor gave him the stitches without an anesthetic.
- The surgery required a general anesthetic. [=a drug that makes a person unconscious and unable to feel pain]
- a local anesthetic [=a drug that makes a part of the body unable to feel pain]
