ethyl aminobenzoate

1. 1.

   a white crystalline ester used as a local anesthetic

   Synonymsbenzocaine

   Broaderlocal anesthetic

Questions about ethyl aminobenzoate

What does ethyl aminobenzoate mean?

ethyl aminobenzoate means "a white crystalline ester used as a local anesthetic".

What is another word for ethyl aminobenzoate?

Close synonyms include benzocaine. 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 ethyl aminobenzoate a common word?

ethyl aminobenzoate 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.