Sedationist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who administers sedatives to a patient.

    "An advantage of the technique is that it may be used by a dentist acting as his own sedationist, i.e. the operator-sedationist."

Example

More examples

"An advantage of the technique is that it may be used by a dentist acting as his own sedationist, i.e. the operator-sedationist."

Etymology

From sedation + -ist.

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