Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
obtundent . - noun Same as
obturator : an incorrect use.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) That which obtunds or blunts; especially, that which blunts sensibility.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun That which
obtunds or blunts; especially, that which bluntssensibility . - noun An
obtundent
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Examples
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My first conception of the analgesic property of a pain obtunder in contradistinction to its anaesthetic effect, which finally led to the discovery of the inhalation of common air by "rapid breathing," was in 1855 or 1856, while performing upon my own teeth certain operations which gave me intense pain (and I could not afford to hurt myself) without a resort to ether and chloroform.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various
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