letheon
English edit
Etymology edit
From New Latin lēthēon, from Ancient Greek λήθη (lḗthē, “forgetting, forgetfulness”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
letheon (uncountable)
- (medicine, archaic) sulphuric ether used as an anaesthetic agent.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “letheon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)