ethyl chloride

1. 1.

   a colorless flammable gas used as a local surface anesthetic

   Broaderlocal anesthetic

Questions about ethyl chloride

What does ethyl chloride mean?

ethyl chloride means "a colorless flammable gas used as a local surface anesthetic".

Is ethyl chloride a common word?

ethyl chloride 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.