local anesthetic

Questions about local anesthetic

What does local anesthetic mean?

local anesthetic means "anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body".

What is another word for local anesthetic?

Close synonyms include local anaesthetic, local, topical anesthetic, topical anaesthetic. 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 local anesthetic a common word?

local anesthetic 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.