‖ analgesia Med.
(ænælˈdʒiːsɪə)
[mod.L., a. Gr. ἀναλγησία painlessness, f. ἀν-άλγητ-ος painless, f. ἀν priv. + ἀλγέ-ειν to feel pain.]
Insensibility to pain; painlessness. Distinguished from anæsthesia or total insensibility.
| 1706 Phillips, Analgesia, Indolency, a being free from Pain or Grief. 1876 Duhring Dis. Skin 525 The condition known as ‘analgesia’ or ‘anodynia,’ in which there is a loss of sensibility to pain. 1878 Foster Phys. iii. v. §3. 484 There is analgesia but no anæsthesia. |