analgesia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The inability to feel pain.
A process of temporarily reducing the ability to feel pain; the provision of this service.
A medication that performs this action: one that relieves pain.

Pronunciation

/ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.zi.ə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-analgesia.wav /ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.ʒə/ /ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.ʒi.ə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-analgesia.wav

Word forms

analgesia analgesias antalgesia

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).

Synonyms

Related words

algesia antalgesic painkiller

Derived words

analgesic antianalgesia audioanalgesia congenital analgesia cryoanalgesia electroanalgesia oligoanalgesia

Translations

Catalan: analgèsia Catalan: anàlgia Finnish: analgesia French: analgésie French: analgie Galician: analxesia German: Analgesie Italian: analgesia Macedonian: обезболување Polish: analgezja Portuguese: analgesia Portuguese: analgia Russian: анальгезия Spanish: analgesia

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