anaesthetic agent

1. 1.

   a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations

   Synonymsanestheticanaestheticanesthetic agent

   Broaderdrug

   Narrowergeneral anestheticintravenous anestheticlocal anestheticspinal anesthetic

Questions about anaesthetic agent

What does anaesthetic agent mean?

anaesthetic agent means "a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations".

What is another word for anaesthetic agent?

Close synonyms include anesthetic, anaesthetic, anesthetic agent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anaesthetic agent a common word?

anaesthetic agent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.