benzocaine

2 definitions found

benzocaine - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  benzocaine \benzocaine\ n.
     a chemical substance obtainable as a white crystalline ester
     (H2N.C6H4.CO.O.C2H5) used as a local anesthetic.
     Chemically, it is 4-aminobenzoic acid ethyl ester.
  
     Syn: ethyl p-aminobenzoate.
          [WordNet 1.5]

benzocaine - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  benzocaine
      n 1: a white crystalline ester used as a local anesthetic [syn:
           benzocaine, ethyl aminobenzoate]