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The term "anaesthetic" was coined by the American physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. in 1846. He derived it from the Greek words:
The term was initially used to refer to any agent that could relieve pain, but it later became specifically associated with substances used to induce surgical anesthesia.
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