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Local anesthetic

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Noun
  1. 1
    An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation only to the area to which it is applied. countable, uncountable

    "He used a local anaesthetic called something or other "snow," which froze the tissue and avoided pain until the probe, the scalpel or the forceps got below the frozen portion."

  2. 2
    anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body wordnet

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