Word: anestheticized
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In his own room, the King was injected with an anesthetic (probably sodium pentothal) by Anesthetist Robert Machray. He was wheeled to the operating room and, if Surgeon Price Thomas followed his customary procedure, laid out three-quarters prone, his left side propped up slightly with pillows.
Best conjecture as to what happened then: Surgeon Price Thomas made a cut beginning about two inches left of the spine, baring the ribs, and an assistant surgeon held the wound open with retractors while the "sterile nurse" (socalled because she wears sterile gloves to handle sterile instruments) handed Price...
It's hard to find exactly the right word to characterize 20th Century Fox's new Technicolor musical, "Call Me Mister." The movie isn't painful, any more than anesthesia is painful. At the same time it's not "anesthetic," because it's noisy enough to keep you awake. Probably...
Dust floated thickly in the air of the canvas tent that was Dr. Dass's operating theater in Darbhanga last week. Amid a raucous babble of several hundred patients, squatting on their haunches to await their turns at one of the makeshift operating tables, sweating coolies carried off postoperative...
Like a Drink & a Kiss. The first-nighters for The Lady's Not for Burning assembled in the customary coquettish melee of a Broadway opening, the day's trivia still buzzing in their ears, its annoyances, despite the anesthetic of dinnertime Martinis, still hot under their collars. The...