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Novocain
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Novocain /No·vo·cain/ (no´vah-kān) trademark for preparations of procaine.
No·vo·cain (nv-kn)
A trademark used for an anesthetic preparation of procaine.

Novocain,
trademark for a local anesthetic (procaine hydrochloride).

Novocain [no´vo-kān]
trademark for preparations of procaine, a local anesthetic.

Novocain (nō´vkān´),
n the brand name for procaine hydrochloride, an ester, which is no longer used in the United States as an injectable. It is also the lay term for all types of dental local anesthesia.

Novocain
a proprietary name for procaine.

Novocain®
Procaine, see there


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