narcose

present singular third person narcoses · participle present narcosing · participle past narcosed · past narcosed

1. raretransitiveTo place in a state of narcosis; to narcotize.

   He then used only 1,250 p. p. m., and although none died, four out of five were depressed and irritated or narcosed.

   1936, Alice Hamilton, Recent Changes in the Painters' Trade, page 52

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   The extracts of these plants are being used in folklore medicine. Metabolites belonging to different chemical classes have been identified as antifungal agents and in chemical narcosing of fish.

   2016, Neelam Garg, Microbes in Food and Health, page 85

plural narcoses

1. obsoleterareThe state of being under narcosis; unconsciousness.

   Chloroform was administered so as to obtain a relaxation of the muscles without producing a complete narcose.

   1893, Journal of the British Dental Association, volume 14, page 179

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   Persons affected with an idiosyncrasy against this particular substance, and neurasthenic sufferers may easily be seized with a vomituritive tendency after the expiration of the narcose […]

   1889, Journal of Materia Medica, volume 27, page 141

   If, then, all anæsthetists would insist upon complete anæsthesis before even the simplest operation was proceeded with, we should hear less frequently of the fatal results of “a few whiffs,” when death is not really due to the use of the anaesthetic, but to the shock consequent upon its not being pushed far enough before the narcose.

   1892, William H. Steele, 567 Useful Hints for the Busy Dentist, page 199