procaine
proh kayn
- n a white crystalline powder (trade name Ethocaine) administered near nerves as a local anesthetic in dentistry and medicine
- Best substitute has been procaine (usually called novocain), synthesized in 1905 by a German.
- During most of her career, the main drug used to relieve these painsoften agonizing, sometimes cripplinghas been procaine (Novocain), which has to be injected.
- The doctor could find no difference that could be unequivocally attributed to the procaine.