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What is the verb for anaesthesia?

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anesthetize
  1. (transitive) To administer anesthesia to: to render unfeeling or unconscious through the use of narcotic substances, usually either alcohol or pharmaceutical drugs.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He immediately administered medication to anesthetize the patient and proceeded to intubate the patient.”
      “Unless the cat is already moribund, the veterinarian will need to lightly sedate or anesthetize the patient.”
      “The drops are instilled to locally anesthetize the surgical eye and reduce the blink reflex in both eyes.”
anaesthetise
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of anesthetize.
  2. Examples:
    1. “He was called on to anaesthetise many eminent patients, who became donors to the medical school.”
      “The doctor was charged with manslaughter, and the prosecution alleged that he had intended, by himself, to anaesthetise the patient with methohexitone.”
      “But she denied calling on the medical profession to anaesthetise all foetuses of more than 17 weeks before they are aborted.”
anesthetized
anaesthetize
  1. (British English) Alternative spelling of anesthetize
  2. Examples:
    1. “He points out that there is evidence that electric eels were used to numb an area of pain, or to anaesthetize it for medical treatment.”
      “In the early 1940s, it became customary to anaesthetize patients with barbiturate injections.”
      “Grown at a higher altitude, it has a potency and an aroma that are incomparable. One seed is enough to anaesthetize one's whole tongue.”
anaesthetises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of anaesthetise
anaesthetizes
anesthetizes
anaesthetised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of anaesthetise
  2. Examples:
    1. “The latter wild and ferocious creatures are so dangerous they have to be anaesthetised fully for Liam to work on them.”
      “It has been shown that decerebrated or anaesthetised animals start to chew with no other stimulation than placing some food in the mouth.”
      “Also, for many years he anaesthetised patients for consultant colleagues at Wincanton Memorial Hospital.”
anaesthetized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of anaesthetize
  2. Examples:
    1. “In the anaesthetized animal, bile flow increased nonlinearly with the rise in Tre on application of controlled external heat.”
      “As very strong currents are required for this latter, the patient has first to be anaesthetized by a general anaesthetic.”
      “They seemed to have been anaesthetized by the general shock.”
anaesthetising
  1. present participle of anaesthetise
anaesthetizing
anesthetizing
  1. present participle of anesthetize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “After anesthetizing and intubating the patient, the anesthesia care provider inserts an arterial line, a central line, and an oral gastric tube.”
      “In the past, sick days had bought me time to read, novels anesthetizing every ill.”
      “Infraclavicular block is one of the most effective methods of anesthetizing the brachial plexus.”
anesthesize
  1. Misspelling of anesthetize.
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