adjective
- treated with or containing cocaine; anesthetized with cocaine
Usage: medical/historical; often used in medical contexts, especially in older texts
verb
- past tense and past participle of cocainize; to treat or anesthetize with cocaine
Usage: medical/historical; transitive verb
Examples
- The surgeon cocainized the patient's nasal passages before the procedure.
- A cocainized surface became numb within minutes of application.
- Early dentists cocainized the gum tissue to reduce pain during extraction.
- The cocainized area showed reduced sensitivity to touch.
- Medical texts from the early 1900s describe how tissues were cocainized for surgery.