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# anaesthetic

«anaesthetic» in Mova's school dictionary: **A medicine that stops you feeling pain, given by a doctor…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an anaesthetic, anaesthetics); adjective (anaesthetic)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A medicine that stops you feeling pain, given by a doctor or dentist before an operation or treatment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anaesthetic/#m1)

2) A local anaesthetic numbs only one part of the body; a general anaesthetic makes you sleep through the whole operation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anaesthetic/#m2)

3) (adjective) Causing a loss of feeling: an anaesthetic cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anaesthetic/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life children meet it at the dentist or in hospital; in science and history lessons it shows how medicine made operations safe and painless. Phrases: under anaesthetic, local anaesthetic, general anaesthetic, give an anaesthetic, wear off.

### examples

- The dentist gave me an anaesthetic before filling my tooth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anaesthetic/#x1)
- She was under general anaesthetic during the operation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anaesthetic/#x2)
- A local anaesthetic numbed his finger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anaesthetic/#x3)
- When the anaesthetic wore off, my mouth felt normal again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anaesthetic/#x4)
- Before anaesthetics, operations were very painful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anaesthetic/#x5)
- Don't eat until the anaesthetic has worn off, or you may bite your cheek. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anaesthetic/#x6)

### note

Spelling: anaesthetic (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand), anesthetic (US, Canada). The doctor who gives it is an anaesthetist (UK) or anesthesiologist (US). Do not confuse with "aesthetic" (about beauty).

### In the corpora

- [A local anaesthetic only numbs one part of the body, and the person stays awake.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/10/)
- [As the anaesthetic wears off, children may feel sleepy, sick or muddled, and recovery nurses give medicine for sickness or pain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/9/)
- [An anaesthetic stops a patient feeling pain during an operation.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/94-medicines-doctors-hospitals/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «anaesthetic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anaesthetic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.