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  • verb administer an anesthetic drug to

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Examples

  • Elvis Costello aptly sang that formatted radio seeks to, "...anesthetise the way that you feel.."

    HANG THE DJ! Eeleen Lee 2008

  • Elvis Costello aptly sang that formatted radio seeks to, "...anesthetise the way that you feel.."

    Archive 2008-01-01 Eeleen Lee 2008

  • Orderly transition of power - that's just poor spin designed to anesthetise Labour's less savvey voters they must have plenty of those .

    Blair Brown Leadership ZZZzzzz..z... Man in a Shed 2006

  • The purpose of fashionable terms like "holistic" and "gestalt" is to anesthetise a sense of ignorance, to create a sense of understanding where there is none 2.3

    Archive 2006-07-01 Bill Kerr 2006

  • The purpose of fashionable terms like "holistic" and "gestalt" is to anesthetise a sense of ignorance, to create a sense of understanding where there is none 2.3

    materialist world view: Minsky Bill Kerr 2006

  • Orderly transition of power - that's just poor spin designed to anesthetise Labour's less savvey voters they must have plenty of those .

    Archive 2006-09-01 Man in a Shed 2006

  • It is not possible to anesthetise the whole cavity and furthermore, the needle may spread the infection.

    Chapter 4 1989

  • Ring block with lidocaine 1%, or anesthetise the skin with ethylene chloride.

    Chapter 4 1989

  • Dental nerve block: inject into the vestibular sulcus and anesthetise along the nerve root as far as the bone, then inject 3/4 of the cartridge after aspirating for blood with the syringe at 30° to the axis of the tooth.

    Chapter 6 1989

  • For superficial abscesses, use ethylene chloride: anesthetise the area and incise immediately (the anesthetic freezes the skin by evaporation). abscess

    Chapter 4 1989

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