procaine


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
procaine /ˈprəʊkeɪn/
noun a synthetic compound used as a local anaesthetic.
– origin early 20th cent.: from pro-1 (denoting substitution) + -caine (from cocaine).
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