Analgesia Definition

ănəl-jēzē-ə, -zhə
noun
A fully conscious state in which a person does not feel painful stimuli.
Webster's New World
A deadening or absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness.
American Heritage Medicine

(medicine) The absence of the sense of pain while remaining conscious.

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Other Word Forms of Analgesia

Noun

Singular:
analgesia
Plural:
analgesias

Origin of Analgesia

  • Greek analgēsiā an- without a–1 algēsiā pain (from algein to feel pain) (from algos pain)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀναλγησία (analgēsia, “painlessness”).

    From Wiktionary

Analgesia Sentence Examples

  • This is done by teaching the patient how to produce analgesia in their hand.

  • Digital nerve blockade is simple and easy to perform and provides useful analgesia for a variety of minor surgical procedures.

  • Regional anesthesia is a good way of achieving analgesia in surgical neonates.

  • Driving ability in cancer patients receiving long-term morphine analgesia.

  • We need to provide optimal analgesia for these simple operations.

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Words Starting With

AANANA

Words Ending With

AIASIA

Unscrambles

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Words Starting With A and Ending With A

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Word Length

9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With A9 Letter Words Ending With A