novocain Pharm.
(ˈnəʊvəʊkeɪn)
Also novocaine, and with capital initial.
[f. novo-, comb. form of L. novus new + cocaine.]
A proprietary name for procaine.
| 1905 Trade Marks Jrnl. 22 Nov. 1450 Novocain... Chemical substances prepared for use in medicine and pharmacy. Farbwerke vorm. Meister Lucius & Brüning, Hoechst a/Main, Germany; manufacturers. 1910 Practitioner Feb. 255 For regional anaesthesia novocain has given good results. 1926 Glasgow Herald 25 Aug. 10 Mrs Mary Agnes Brown..died..following injections of cocaine hydrochlorate, which had been mistakenly administered instead of novocaine solution. 1952 Morin & Smith tr. Herzog's Annapurna xvi. 232 It meant injecting novocaine into the nerve ganglion. 1961 C. McCullers Clock without Hands iii. 55 Poke, Doc's brother, just drew the tooth for me—with novocain and antibiotics. 1972 ‘G. Black’ Bitter Tea (1973) ix. 139, I sat like a man coming from dental extractions under Novocaine, given a time of numb reprieve before the pain flared. |