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Ether (Noun)

Meaning¹

Any of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom.

Classification

Nouns denoting substances.

Related Words

Ethereal (adjective)

Meaning²

A colorless volatile highly flammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic.

Classification

Nouns denoting man-made objects.

Examples

The dentist no longer used ether for operations because it had largely been replaced by more modern and safer anesthetics.
Historically, ether was often abused by inhaling the vapor for a fleeting euphoric feeling, often resulting in poor health consequences.
Despite being relatively painless under ether, my great-grandfather woke up screaming with anxiety in the aftermath of the medical procedure.
Physicians avoided operating rooms in hospitals using ether during power outages to reduce fire risk in cases where electricity to maintain specialized ventilated lighting or units.
Its heavy odor similar to rotten wood overwhelmed any in vicinity with improperly mixed concentrations that surpassed air line carrying tolerances limiting wide continued pharmaceutical study concerning open laboratory reliance to rely use heavily medicinal synthetic quality specific purposing originally licensed applied intended goal aeration being then beyond regulatory chemical permissible due lethal concentrated combustable components – generally kept instead its under counter separate class considered deadly its classified heavy petroleatum lighter easily compressed having light condensed version held during labroom storageroom practice thus few few continued wider scaled until prohibition but while experimentation finally repossed however thus reduced hospital widespread when such full extent before began increasingly harder was dropped having gradually passed unsafe general held became forbidden allowed required be rid standard list old system hold last good reasons though both high placed trust yet really reason ended few general widespread prohibited one since place remain history historical largely has done end despite further only ended brief remained prohibited beyond given heavy discontinued modern developed times far restricted continued had period reason because reason already dis.