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analgesia

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

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).

  1. derived from ἀναλγησίᾱ
  2. borrowed from analgēsia

Definitions

  1. The inability to feel pain.

    • epidural analgesia

  2. A process of temporarily reducing the ability to feel pain

    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.

  3. A medication that performs this action

    A medication that performs this action: one that relieves pain.

    • apply an analgesia
    • She was able to take analgesia orally.
    • Most physical distress yields to some analgesia—not so depression.

The neighborhood

Derived

analgesic, antianalgesia, audioanalgesia, congenital analgesia, cryoanalgesia, electroanalgesia, oligoanalgesia

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for analgesia. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA