How to Use anesthetic in a Sentence

anesthetic

1 of 2 adjective

• Paramedics gave Snape 400 milligrams of the anesthetic ketamine in an attempt to calm her down, police said.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2021
• In general, said Clark, the anesthetic agents themselves are safe for the fetus.
  — Trisha Pasricha, STAT, 17 Aug. 2022
• The execution team prepared the equipment, and a team member could not find anesthetic in the kit.
  — The Arizona Republic, 16 Nov. 2022
• Paramedics called to the scene then injected McClain with the anesthetic ketamine.
  — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 1 Sep. 2021
• Ketamine is an anesthetic drug that can also be used for pain relief.
  — Chevall Pryce, Houston Chronicle, 22 July 2019
• Medicines sourced by the NHS account for a fifth of its total emissions, with the largest portion coming from inhalers and anesthetic gases.
  — Todd Gillespie, Bloomberg.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• Steed recalled working with a post-anesthetic care unit (PACU) nurse in an intensive-care unit.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021
• Turner was under anesthetic while Ashkan and his colleagues performed the craniotomy, or removal of part of the skull.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2020
• The team gave him the anesthetic drug ketamine to ease his withdrawal and later prescribed him methadone for the same purpose upon discharge.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2022
• Just like humans, plants can succumb to the effects of general anesthetic drugs, researchers report this week in the Annals of Botany.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2017
• An epidural is an injection via a catheter of either an anesthetic agent or a steroid into a person’s epidural space, the space in the body surrounding the spinal nerves.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• Menthol is responsible for the flavor of mint and has a cooling and mild anesthetic effect.
  — Talis Shelbourne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2020
• Some practitioners, like Dr. Soni, use a local anesthetic cream and ice on the area, others just go straight to injecting.
  — Tori Crowther, Allure, 15 Mar. 2023
• Tabbaa said ketamine has been used for many years as an anesthetic agent in hospital settings.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 19 Mar. 2021
• The reason for denying beating-heart cadavers anesthetic during the removal of their organs is hard to pin down.
  — Dick Teresi, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2012
• Game and Fish said the anesthetic drug used has a 14-day minimum withdrawal period.
  — Mike McFeely, Twin Cities, 6 Sep. 2019
• The menthol in the peppermint leaves can have a slight anesthetic effect on your throat, suppressing your cough (which is why peppermint appears in many cough drops).
  — Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 28 Oct. 2022
• The suspect, 33, was arrested last week after an anesthetic drug was found in tissue samples of her 9-year-old, who died in January.
  — Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2022
• In that outbreak, which was also linked to epidural anesthetic procedures, there were 39 deaths among 80 cases, according to the CDC.
  — Akshay Syal, M.d., NBC News, 12 June 2023
• Fentanyl was first developed in 1960 as a powerful painkiller and surgery anesthetic without the side effect of nausea.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
• Jackson died four years later, after his personal doctor gave him too large a dose of the anesthetic propofol, which was administered to help the singer sleep.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023
• Delta 8 offers an effect that's more sedative and anesthetic than other types of cannabinoids found in edibles.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2022
• Surviving doctors and nurses tried to save their colleagues with emergency surgery in the kitchen, without anesthetic.
  — Jessica Donati, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2021
• The anesthetic shots were, as my Korean American friends who had undergone the surgery warned, immensely painful.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Dec. 2022
• The buzz around ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic drug, is booming.
  — Julia Ries, SELF, 15 Sep. 2022
• Three years ago, the F.D.A. approved esketamine, a nasal spray derived from the anesthetic ketamine, for depression that is resistant to other types of treatment.
  — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2022
• The rest received either salt water or the drug midazolam, a benzodiazepine like Xanax that is also used as an anesthetic agent.
  — C. Michael White, The Conversation, 8 Nov. 2023
• Then local anesthetic medication is injected into the eye with a tiny needle or as eye drops.
  — Dagny Zhu, Verywell Health, 26 Jan. 2023
• In 2019, the F.D.A. gave approval to esketamine, a nasal spray derived from the anesthetic ketamine, for treatment-resistant depression.
  — New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• One straightforward theory is that ketamine has anesthetic and sedative properties — the perfect treatment for withdrawal.
  — Lev Facher, STAT, 8 May 2023

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anesthetic

2 of 2 noun

• The doctor gave him the stitches without an anesthetic.
• What’s a euphemism for the drop-of-wine anesthetic at a bris?
  — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2021
• On the porch of a hut, the nurse, José Luis Fernández, cleaned the wound, injected an anesthetic and sutured the cut.
  — Julie Turkewitz Federico Rios, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• The salmon was stunned with an anesthetic and lay motionless.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
• The drug was passed on to a surgeon by the name of Henri Laborit, who was on the hunt for a more effective anesthetic.
  — WIRED, 10 Feb. 2023
• Then, a topical anesthetic is applied and left on the skin for an hour to help reduce pain.
  — Audrey Noble, Allure, 15 Aug. 2023
• The aching usually starts hours later once the anesthetic wears off.
  — Jonathan Wosen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2021
• Due to the damage, doctors at a nearby clinic had to amputate the leg above the knee, without anesthetic to numb the pain.
  — David Mateo Ricci, STAT, 31 Dec. 2019
• Ketamine has been used as an anesthetic since the1960s.
  — Allegra Ringo, Allure, 30 Oct. 2019
• Uricalm is an over-the-counter brand of phenazopyridine, a local anesthetic that acts on the urinary tract.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 18 Mar. 2022
• It was even used as a surgical anesthetic until it was banned in 1977.
  — Sophia Vento, Journal Sentinel, 20 July 2023
• The doctors gave the man some antibiotic eye drops and a local anesthetic before pulling the stinger out.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2020
• Propofol is a strong sedative that can also be used as an anesthetic.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 21 Mar. 2023
• It was modeled after the drug ketamine, an anesthetic that has been used for many years to treat depression.
  — David E. Carpenter, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• Using a syringe pole, the team injected the bear with an anesthetic to knock him out before extracting him from the ice, per the station.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2023
• There were still dozens of patients in the wards, the organization added, but supplies of anesthetics and oxygen had run out.
  — Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
• In 1984, a teenager injected herself with a local anesthetic and tried to cut the fetus out.
  — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2021
• Getting a lip injection starts with a topical anesthetic being applied to the area to numb the lips.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2023
• But the surgical removal is very simple and done with just a local anesthetic.
  — Mona Gohara, Good Housekeeping, 11 Aug. 2022
• The chili was initially developed to be use as an anesthetic.
  — Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2020
• Cocaine is no longer used as an anesthetic, for example, and the bygone era of lobotomies is thankfully over.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2021
• Turner was under anesthetic while Ashkan and his colleagues performed the craniotomy, or removal of part of the skull.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2020
• Ketamine was approved by the FDA as an anesthetic and is used off-label otherwise.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 16 Mar. 2023
• Agents also found vials of diazepam, a sedative, and ketamine, an anesthetic.
  — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2020
• Asking three-time Indy 500 winner Hélio Castroneves to take it slow is like asking the dentist to skip the anesthetic.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 20 May 2021
• The surgery required general anesthetic and lasted four hours, according to a statement from the palace.
  — Peter Mikelbank, PEOPLE.com, 13 Aug. 2021
• That led to a last-minute phone call while the infant was being wheeled into surgery, Maron said, to ensure doctors used different anesthetics.
  — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 11 July 2023
• It was widely used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War, and remains a standard anesthetic in emergency rooms around the world.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2021
• The drug was administered to American soldiers during the war as a field anesthetic.
  — Dylan Wickman, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2024
• It is approved as a medical product as an injectable, short-acting anesthetic for use in humans and animals, the DEA says, and as a nasal spray to help treat depression.
  — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024