analgesia

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English

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Etymology

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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Noun

analgesia (countable and uncountable, plural analgesias)

  1. (medicine) The inability to feel pain.
    Synonym: analgia
    epidural analgesia
  2. (pharmacology) An analgesic (medication that acts to relieve pain).
    apply an analgesia
    be under analgesia
    light analgesia
    She was able to take analgesia orally.
    • 1988 December 19, William Styron, “Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      Most physical distress yields to some analgesia—not so depression.

Usage notes

Analgesia (feeling no pain) is inherently related to anesthesia (feeling no stimulus at all, or almost none), and accordingly, the drug classes of analgesics and anesthetics overlap, with some shared members, although most pain relievers preserve sensation.

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Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English analgesia), ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀναλγησία (analgēsía).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑnɑlɡesiɑ/,
  • Rhymes: -esiɑ
  • Hyphenation(key): anal‧ge‧sia

Noun

analgesia

  1. analgesia

Declension

Inflection of analgesia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative analgesia analgesiat
genitive analgesian analgesioiden
analgesioitten
partitive analgesiaa analgesioita
illative analgesiaan analgesioihin
singular plural
nominative analgesia analgesiat
accusative nom. analgesia analgesiat
gen. analgesian
genitive analgesian analgesioiden
analgesioitten
analgesiain rare
partitive analgesiaa analgesioita
inessive analgesiassa analgesioissa
elative analgesiasta analgesioista
illative analgesiaan analgesioihin
adessive analgesialla analgesioilla
ablative analgesialta analgesioilta
allative analgesialle analgesioille
essive analgesiana analgesioina
translative analgesiaksi analgesioiksi
abessive analgesiatta analgesioitta
instructive analgesioin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of analgesia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)

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Indonesian

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀναλγησία (analgēsía, want of feeling, insensibility).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: anal‧gé‧sia

Noun

analgésia (first-person possessive analgesiaku, second-person possessive analgesiamu, third-person possessive analgesianya)

  1. analgesia: the inability to feel pain.

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Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀναλγησία (analgēsía).

Noun

analgesia f (plural analgesie)

  1. analgesia

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: a‧nal‧ge‧si‧a

Noun

analgesia f (plural analgesias)

  1. (medicine) analgesia (absence of the sense of pain)
    Synonym: analgia

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /analˈxesja/
  • Rhymes: -esja
  • Syllabification: a‧nal‧ge‧sia

Noun

analgesia f (plural analgesias)

  1. (medicine) analgesia (absence of the sense of pain)

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