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volatile anaesthetic

noun

C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

An inhalational agent that is liquid at room temperature and vaporised for delivery to maintain general anaesthesia.

We maintained anaesthesia with a volatile anaesthetic delivered through a calibrated vaporiser.

Similar: inhalational agent, volatile agent

Topic: Anaesthesia in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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