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  • noun organic chemistry An amide local anesthetic, the active ingredient in some topical hemorrhoid creams.

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Examples

  • Charity sighed, and attacked the first; it was full of long words, like cephalhaematoma and cinchocaine hydrochloride, which hadn't been written clearly in the first place and which she couldn't spell anyway.

    Two Weeks To Remember Neels, Betty 1986

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