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Paralytic vs Anesthetic - What's the difference?

paralytic | anesthetic |

As nouns the difference between paralytic and anesthetic

is that paralytic is someone suffering from paralysis while anesthetic is (medicine) a substance administered to reduce the perception of pain or to induce numbness an anesthetic may or may not render the recipient unconscious, depending upon the type used.

As adjectives the difference between paralytic and anesthetic

is that paralytic is affected by paralysis; paralysed while anesthetic is causing the reduction of pain sensitivity.

paralytic

English

Alternative forms

* paralytick (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone suffering from paralysis.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "paralytic")

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Affected by paralysis; paralysed.
  • * Prior
    • the cold, shaking, paralytic hand
  • Pertaining to paralysis.
  • (UK, Australia, Irish) Very drunk.
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=Para-olympics , group=aus.jokes , author=Ben McCulloch , date=August 18 , year=1996 , passage=Are the para-olympics the events in which the olympians, having finished their events in the normal olympics, go out and get pissed and then compete again?
    ie: the para-olympics become the paralytic olympics. citation
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=Gundagai - Last Use Of Line? , group=aus.rail , author=David McLoughlin , date=January 3 , year=1999 , passage=I'm amazed I survived so much drunken driving. Once he was so paralytic he even made me drive, and I was about 14 and barely able to see above the steering wheel. At least it was an automatic. citation
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    • , title=ablett no from hall of fame , group=aus.sport.aussie-rules , author=Peter Ryan , date=May 24 , year=2001 , passage=He hasn't even been openly accused of anything bar drinking himself paralytic at a time that, in hindsight, was inconvenient. citation
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    • , title=On the Isle of Man. , group=free.jokes , author=C e r b e r u s - T h e D o g O f H e l l , date=April 16 , year=2002 , passage=On returning to his friends at the bar he remarked " there's a fellow in the jaxx and he's just paralytic . He must be heading for the boat and didn't quite make it." citation

    Derived terms

    * paralytically Geordie English

    anesthetic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * anaesthetic

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing the reduction of pain sensitivity.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medicine) A substance administered to reduce the perception of pain or to induce numbness. An anesthetic may or may not render the recipient unconscious, depending upon the type used.
  • * 1994 , Anesthetics (Ophthalmic)] ([http://www.drugs.com/cons/anesthetics-ophthalmic.html 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 Famiy 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.

    Related terms

    * freezing

    References

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