local anesthetic

English

Alternative forms

• local anaesthetic

Noun

local anesthetic (countable and uncountable, plural local anesthetics)

1. (medicine) An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation only to the area to which it is applied.
   • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 15, in A Farewell to Arms:

     He used a local anaesthetic called something or other "snow," which froze the tissue and avoided pain until the probe, the scalpel or the forceps got below the frozen portion.

Translations

substance

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 局部麻醉 (zh) (júbù mázuì), 部位麻醉 (bùwèi mázuì), 局麻 (júmá)

• Finnish: paikallispuudutusaine
• German: Lokalanästhetikum (de) n (technical), lokales Betäubungsmittel n, Betäubungsmittel (de) n
• Hungarian: érzéstelenítő (hu), érzéstelenítő szer
• Lao: ຢາມຶນ (lo) (yā mưn)
• Portuguese: anestesia local f
• Russian: местный анестетик m (mestnyj anestetik)
• Slovak: lokálne anestetikum
• Spanish: anestésico local m
• Tagalog: pampamanhid
• Thai: ยาชา (th) (yaa-chaa)

See also

• general anesthetic