analgesia

[ an-l-jee-zee-uh, -see-uh ]
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nounMedicine/Medical.
  1. absence of sense of pain.

Origin of analgesia

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1700–10; <New Latin <Greek analgēsía painlessness, equivalent to análgēt(os) without pain (an-an-1 + álg(os) pain + -ētos adj. suffix) + -ia-ia

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British Dictionary definitions for analgesia

analgesia

analgia (ænˈældʒɪə)

/ (ˌænəlˈdʒiːzɪə, -sɪə) /


noun
  1. inability to feel pain

  2. the relief of pain

Origin of analgesia

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C18: via New Latin from Greek: insensibility, from an- + algēsis sense of pain

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