analgesia

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The inability to feel pain.

   Epidural analgesia.

2. 2
   noun

   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. 3
   noun

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

   Apply an analgesia.

Simplified etymology

Analgesia dates from the early 18th century and is one of several medical terms derived from Greek algos, “pain.” The source glosses it as “without pain.”

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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