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painkiller (a drug that decreases or removes pain that you feel in your body I took some over-the-counter painkillers for my headache. MWALD Alexander Demidov); anaesthetic (a drug that makes a person or an animal unable to feel anything, especially pain, either in the whole body or in a part of the body • How long will I be under anaesthetic? • They gave him a general anaesthetic (= one that makes you become unconscious). • (a) local anaesthetic (= one that affects only a part of the body) • We forget what life must have been like without anaesthetics and painkillers. OALD Alexander Demidov) |
