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analgesia
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| analgetic
| anallagmatic
| anallantoic
| anallantoidea
analgesia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun analgesia has 1 sense
- analgesia(n = noun.state) - absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness; is a kind of physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state
Derived forms adjective analgesic1, adjective analgetic1
CIDE DICTIONARY
analgesia, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ; 'an priv. + sense of pain.].
Absence of sensibility to pain. Quain. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
analgesia, n. the absence or relief of pain.
Etymology
mod.L f. Gk, = painlessness
THESAURUS
analgesia
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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