Antibiotic and anesthetic drops are applied to Mr. Power's eyes.

Last week, a little after 10:40 a.m., Colin Carroll, a 21-year-old midshipman from Olney, Md., put anesthetic drops in his eyes and lay down under the laser as Capt. Kerry Hunt, a Navy doctor, and two assistants prepared to begin.

The procedure is relatively quick, but it does require that both eyes be immobilized with anesthetic drops, and that the layers of the eyeball where the implant is situated must be separated by the injection of liquid.

My eyeballs have been numbed with anesthetic drops.

Before using the laser, the ophthalmologist dilates the pupil and applies anesthetic drops to numb the eye.

The surgeon, a confident young man, ran over the à la carte anesthesia menu: topical anesthetic drops on the eye.

Both lubricating drops and anesthetic drops (to numb the eye) are used.

The procedure is painless because the injection is given after local anesthetic drops are applied to the eye.

These cough suppressant/oral anesthetic drops come in two flavors.