analgesia

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).

noun

1. (medicine) The inability to feel pain.
   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.
   Most physical distress yields to some analgesia—not so depression. 1988-12-19, William Styron, “Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died”, in The New York Times, →ISSN