DIBUCAINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dibucaine mean? 

• DIBUCAINE (noun)
  The noun DIBUCAINE has 1 sense:

1. a local anesthetic that is administered by injection

  Familiarity information: DIBUCAINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIBUCAINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A local anesthetic that is administered by injection

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("dibucaine" is a kind of...):

intravenous anesthetic (an anesthetic that produces anesthesia when injected into the circulatory system)

 Context examples 

Dibucaine reversibly binds to and inactivates sodium channels in the neuronal cell membrane.

(Dibucaine, NCI Thesaurus)