cocainize

English

Etymology

From cocaine +‎ -ize.

Verb

cocainize (third-person singular simple present cocainizes, present participle cocainizing, simple past and past participle cocainized)

1. (transitive) To anesthetize or treat (someone, or something such as a body part) with cocaine.
   • 1908 July 1, Daniel R. Lucas, “Physiological and Pharmacological Studies of the Ureter. III.”, in H[enry] P[ickering] Bowditch [et al.], editors, The American Journal of Physiology, volume XXII, number II, Boston, Mass.: Ginn and Company [for the American Physiological Society], →ISSN, →OCLC, section III (Ureteral Pressure and Renal Circulation), page 260:

     The animal was anesthetized with ether or the skin over the femoral artery cocainized, the artery exposed and cannulized, and the animal bled to death.