butacaine sulfate

1. 1.

   a white crystalline ester that is applied to mucous membranes as a local anesthetic

   Synonymsbutacaine

   Broaderlocal anesthetic

Questions about butacaine sulfate

What does butacaine sulfate mean?

butacaine sulfate means "a white crystalline ester that is applied to mucous membranes as a local anesthetic".

What is another word for butacaine sulfate?

Close synonyms include butacaine. 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 butacaine sulfate a common word?

butacaine sulfate 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.