different between sedative vs anesthetic

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?d?t?v/
• Rhymes: -?v
• Hyphenation: sed?a?tive

Noun

sedative (plural sedatives)

1. (pharmacology) An agent or drug that sedates, having a calming or soothing effect, or inducing sleep.

Synonyms

• (agents that cause sleep): sleeping pill, soporific, tranquilizer
• (other agents that sedate): anxiolytic, depressant, downer

Translations

Adjective

sedative (comparative more sedative, superlative most sedative)

1. (pharmacology) Calming, soothing, inducing sleep, tranquilizing

Synonyms

• ataractic
• ataraxic

Translations

References

• sedative on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• deviates

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.da?ti.ve/
• Hyphenation: se?da?tì?ve

Adjective

sedative

1. feminine plural of sedativo

Anagrams

• deviaste, evadesti

English

Alternative forms

• anaesthetic (British)
• anæsthetic (obsolete)
• anesthesic
• anesthetical

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (anaísth?tos, “insensible”), from ??- (an-, “un-”) + ?????????? (aisth?tikós, “perceptible”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æn?s???t?k/, (nonstandard) /?æn?s?t?t?k/
• Rhymes: -?t?k

Adjective

anesthetic (comparative more anesthetic, superlative most anesthetic)

1. (American spelling) Causing anesthesia; reducing pain sensitivity.
2. Insensate: unable to feel, or unconscious.
   • 1924, Maurice Walter Keatinge, Suggestion in Education:

     (I find that he is analgesic and anaesthetic; evidently he is in a state of passive somnambulism.)

     E. A. Did you feel anybody touch you?

     K. No. There's no one near me. (He continues laughing and talking. […] )

   • 1984, B. R. Hergenhahn, An Introduction to Theories of Personality, Prentice Hall:

     Though physically capable of attaining sex rewards, he is anesthetic; though capable of aggression, he is meek; though capable of affection, he is cold and unresponsive.

   • 2012, H.L. Mencken, Mencken Chrestomathy, Vintage (?ISBN), page 189:

     He is anesthetic to their theological and political enthusiasms. He finds himself an alien at their feasts of soul.

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Translations

Noun

anesthetic (plural anesthetics)

1. (American spelling, medicine) A substance administered to reduce the perception of pain or to induce numbness for surgery and may render the recipient unconscious.
   • 1994, Anesthetics (Ophthalmic) (original version), Drugs.com:

     After a local anesthetic is applied to the eye, do not rub or wipe the eye until the anesthetic has worn off and feeling in the eye returns.

   • 2004, Jacoby, David B. and Youngson, R. M., Encyclopedia of Family Health, Marshall Cavendish, pg. 91.

     Modern anesthetics can be divided into several different groups according to how and where they act to reduce pain.

     During premedication, the anesthetist may give a patient drugs that make him or her feel relaxed and drowsy before the actual general anesthetic is administered.

Translations

References

• "Anesthetics", 2010 MeSH, National Library of Medicine.

Further reading

• anesthetic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• chainettes, entheastic