Meaning of ANALGESIA
| Pronunciation: | | `anl'jeezeeu
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| | Definition: | | [n] absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness |
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| | See Also: | | physiological condition, physiological state | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \An`al*ge"si*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'analghsi`a; 'an
priv. + 'a`lghsis sense of pain.] (Med.)
Absence of sensibility to pain. --Quain.
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| Medical Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | The inability to feel pain. |
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| | Definition: | | Loss of normal sensitivity to pain; compare anesthesia. |
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| | Related Terms: | | abatement, allayment, alleviation, anesthesia, anesthetizing, anxiety equivalent, appeasement, assuagement, callousness, deadening, deadness, depraved appetite, diminishment, diminution, dulling, dullness, ease, easement, easing, electronarcosis, impassibility, imperception, imperceptiveness, imperceptivity, impercipience, inconsiderateness, insensibility, insensibleness, insensitiveness, insensitivity, insentience, lessening, lulling, mitigation, mollification, narcosis, narcotization, neurasthenia, numbing, numbness, obtuseness, palliation, paresthesia, parorexia, pica, pins and needles, reduction, relief, remedy, salving, softening, soothing, speech abnormality, subduement, thick skin, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unperceptiveness |
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