Meanings
present singular third person cocainizes · participle present cocainizing · participle past cocainized · past cocainized
- transitiveTo anesthetize or treat (someone, or something such as a body part) with cocaine.
The animal was anesthetized with ether or the skin over the femoral artery cocainized, the artery exposed and cannulized, and the animal bled to death.
1908 July 1, Daniel R. Lucas, “Physiological and Pharmacological Studies of the Ureter. III.”, in H[enry] P[ickering] Bowditch [et al.], editors, The American Journal of Physiology, volume XXII, number II, Boston, Mass.: Ginn and Company [for the American Physiological Society], →ISSN, →OCLC, section III (Ureteral Pressure and Renal Circulation), page 260Synonyms: cocaine
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verbTo anesthetize or treat (someone, or something such as a body part) with cocaine.
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