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Ethyl chloride

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Chloroethane. uncountable

    "Thiopentone is a short-acting drug – not a good agent to keep the patient anaesthetized for very long – so a switch must be made to another anaesthetic. The common one used in those days was ethyl chloride."

  2. 2
    a colorless flammable gas used as a local surface anesthetic wordnet

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