Pontocaine Pharm.
(ˈpɒntəʊkeɪn)
Also pontocaine. Formerly also -cain.
A proprietary name in the U.S. for pantocain.
| 1935 Surg. Clinics N. Amer. Dec. 1501 Anesthetists have recently turned to the longer-acting drugs pontocain and nupercaine. 1935 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 10 Dec. 259/2 Winthrop Chemical Company, Inc., New York,..Pontocaine for anesthetic. Claims use since Aug. 26, 1935. 1938 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 27 Jan. 170/1 For the past four years at the Faulkner Hospital, pontocaine and novocain have been combined for spinal anesthesia. 1946 Anesthesiology VII. 500 Since 1943 we have employed ephedrine in combination with pontocaine hydrochloride for spinal anesthesia in over 2,500 cases. 1975 Nature 24 Apr. 710/2 Twelve Dorset and Western ewes at days 67–147 of gestation were starved for 48 h and then placed under pentobarbitol sedation (5 mg kg-1) and spinal anaesthesia (6 mg pontocaine in hyperbaric glucose). |