noun · countable / uncountable · rare

analgesia

analgesia · analgesias

анальгезия

Analgesie

The inability to feel painThe inability to feel pain.

UK/ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.zi.ə/US/ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.ʒə/

Meaning

3 senses

(countable, uncountable)The inability to feel pain.
epidural analgesia
Analgesie
анальгезияanalʹgezija
(countable, uncountable)A process of temporarily reducing the ability to feel pain; the provision of this service.
This office procedure is quick and straightforward, but it does require some analgesia.
(broadly, countable, metonymically, often, proscribed, uncountable)A medication that performs this action: one that relieves pain.
apply an analgesia
She was able to take analgesia orally.

More definitions

absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness

Translations

7 languages

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absence of the sense of pain:

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absence of the sense of pain:

Origin

From New Latin analgēsia, from Ancient Greek ἀναλγησίᾱ (analgēsíā, “want of feeling, insen

From New Latin analgēsia, from Ancient Greek ἀναλγησίᾱ (analgēsíā, “want of feeling, insensibility”), from ἀνάλγητος (análgētos), from ἀν- (an-, “not”) + ἀλγέω (algéō, “feel bodily pain, suffer”) + -τος (-tos, adjectival suffix).

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