anesthetic agent

Questions about anesthetic agent

What does anesthetic agent mean?

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

What is another word for anesthetic agent?

Close synonyms include anesthetic, anaesthetic, anaesthetic 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 anesthetic agent a common word?

anesthetic 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.