A chemical compound or functional group related to or derived from anesthetic substances.
From 'anesthetic' + '-yl' (chemical suffix denoting a functional group or radical). A term from organic chemistry relating to anesthetic molecules.
In chemistry, the '-yl' suffix indicates a specific chemical structure or group—so 'anesthyl' refers to the portion of a molecule that might give an anesthetic compound its numbing properties.
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