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.

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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