anaesthetist

«anaesthetist» in Mova's school dictionary: A doctor who gives patients medicine (anaesthetic) so… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (an anaesthetist, anaesthetists)

meaning for a pupil

(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A doctor who gives patients medicine (anaesthetic) so they feel no pain or are fully asleep during an operation, and who watches over them until they wake up. tree →

sense in the lessons

In health lessons and hospital stories the anaesthetist is the doctor who says "count backwards from ten" before an operation and keeps the patient safe while asleep. It tells the reader an operation is about to happen. In the USA the word is "anesthesiologist", and a nurse who does this is a "nurse anesthetist".

examples

• The anaesthetist put me to sleep before my operation. tree →
• "Count back from ten," said the anaesthetist kindly. tree →
• An anaesthetist watches your breathing during surgery. tree →
• My mum is an anaesthetist at the children's hospital. tree →
• The anaesthetist checked that I hadn't eaten breakfast. tree →
• When I woke up, the anaesthetist asked how I felt. tree →

note

UK spelling: anaesthetist, anaesthetic; US spelling: anesthesiologist, anesthetic. Hard to spell: an-aes-the-tist. Countable, takes "an". "General anaesthetic" makes you fully asleep; "local anaesthetic" numbs just one part.

Trees and pragmatics

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