anesthetize
verb
anes·the·tize
ə-ˈnes-thə-ˌtīz 
British -ˈnēs-
anesthetized; anesthetizing
: to subject to anesthesia
Examples of anesthetize in a Sentence
The doctor anesthetized the patient by an intravenous injection.
She was anesthetized before the operation.
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Typically, a person can be anesthetized in 30 seconds, but these girls would take 15 minutes.
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Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 3 Sep. 2024
When Ellie — who’d been anesthetized and therefore unaware of both Joel’s actions and the danger to her — came to, Joel lied and said the experiment hadn’t worked.
—Claire Franken, TVLine, 4 Aug. 2024
When they were anesthetized, however, their brains seemed to irregularly fire off much faster patterns.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 7 July 2024
Alhadeff and her coworkers used a microscope to observe levels of calcium—an indicator of cellular activity levels—in AP and NTS cells while mice were anesthetized.
—Mitch Leslie, science.org, 10 July 2024
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Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 3 Sep. 2024
When Ellie — who’d been anesthetized and therefore unaware of both Joel’s actions and the danger to her — came to, Joel lied and said the experiment hadn’t worked.
—Claire Franken, TVLine, 4 Aug. 2024
When they were anesthetized, however, their brains seemed to irregularly fire off much faster patterns.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 7 July 2024
Alhadeff and her coworkers used a microscope to observe levels of calcium—an indicator of cellular activity levels—in AP and NTS cells while mice were anesthetized.
—Mitch Leslie, science.org, 10 July 2024
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“Anesthetize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anesthetize. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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anesthetize
verb
anes·the·tize
ə-ˈnes-thə-ˌtīz
anesthetized; anesthetizing
: to make insensible to pain especially by the use of an anesthetic
Medical Definition
anesthetize
transitive verb
anes·the·tize
variants
or chiefly British anaesthetize
also anaesthetise
anesthetized or chiefly British anesthetized also anesthetised; anesthetizing or chiefly British anesthetizing also anesthetising
: to subject to anesthesia
anesthetization
noun
or chiefly British anaesthetization
also anaesthetisation
ə-ˌnes-thət-ə-ˈzā-shən, British -ˌnēs-
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