Topical anesthetic: Gebauer. (Product News).

Ethyl Chloride Pain-Ease[R] is a topical skin refrigerant re·frig·er·ant
adj.
1. Cooling or freezing; refrigerating.

2. Reducing fever.

n.
1. A substance, such as air, ammonia, water, or carbon dioxide, used to provide cooling either as the working substance of that can be used to desensitize de·sen·si·tize
v.
1. To render insensitive or less sensitive, as a nerve or tooth.

2. To make an individual nonreactive or insensitive to an antigen.

3. the affected area prior to minor surgical procedures, injections, and venipuncture venipuncture /veni·punc·ture/ (ven?i-pungk´chur) surgical puncture of a vein.

ve·ni·punc·ture or ve·ne·punc·ture
n. and IV procedures.

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Title Annotation:	Ethyl Chloride Pain-Ease
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Date:	Mar 1, 2003
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