Analgesia
//ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.zi.ə// noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The inability to feel pain. countable, uncountable
"epidural analgesia"
- 2 absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness wordnet
- 3 A process of temporarily reducing the ability to feel pain; the provision of this service. countable, uncountable
"This office procedure is quick and straightforward, but it does require some analgesia."
- 4 A medication that performs this action: one that relieves pain. broadly, countable, metonymically, often, proscribed, uncountable
"apply an analgesia"
Antonyms
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More examples"This office procedure is quick and straightforward, but it does require some analgesia."
Etymology
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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