Other forms: anaesthetists
An anaesthetist is the doctor who puts patients to sleep for surgery. See the anaesthetist, the anaesthetist's assessment, a consultant anaesthetist.
The job is keeping somebody alive while unconscious rather than simply sending them to sleep, which is why it is a full medical specialty. America says anesthesiologist, and the American anesthetist is a different and non-medical role.
1nounanaesthetistThe doctor who puts patients to sleep for surgery.
“The anaesthetist asked him to count backwards from ten as the drug took effect.”
anaesthetist is a doctor.
Also accepted in games: anesthetist
From anaesthetic, from Greek an-, without, plus aisthesis, sensation.
From anaesthetize + ist.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA