Third person singular present tense: administers ether as an anesthetic or treats something with ether.
From 'etherize' plus the standard third-person singular suffix '-s'. Standard conjugation of the medical verb.
Even though we don't etherize patients anymore, the verb survived in medical history and literature—it's one of those words that freezes a moment in history when one substance changed everything.
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