"analgesia" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.zi.ə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.ʒə/ [General-American], /ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.ʒi.ə/ [General-American], /ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.zi.ə/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-analgesia.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-analgesia.wav [US] Forms: analgesias [plural]
Rhymes: -iːʒə 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). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|NL.|analgēsia}} New Latin analgēsia, {{der|en|grc|ἀναλγησίᾱ||want of feeling, insensibility}} Ancient Greek ἀναλγησίᾱ (analgēsíā, “want of feeling, insensibility”), {{m|grc|ἀνάλγητος}} ἀνάλγητος (análgētos), {{m|grc|ἀν-|t=not}} ἀν- (an-, “not”), {{m|grc|ἀλγέω|t=feel bodily pain, suffer}} ἀλγέω (algéō, “feel bodily pain, suffer”), {{m|grc|-τος|pos=adjectival suffix}} -τος (-tos, adjectival suffix) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} analgesia (countable and uncountable, plural analgesias)
  1. (medicine) The inability to feel pain. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine Synonyms: analgia Translations (absence of the sense of pain): analgèsia [feminine] (Catalan), anàlgia [feminine] (Catalan), analgesia (Finnish), analgésie [feminine] (French), analgie [feminine] (French), analxesia [feminine] (Galician), Analgesie [feminine] (German), analgesia [feminine] (Italian), analgezja [feminine] (Polish), analgesia [feminine] (Portuguese), analgia [feminine] (Portuguese), analgesia [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-analgesia-en-noun-ghwugzmI Categories (other): English terms with collocations, English entries with incorrect language header, English links with manual fragments Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 31 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 50 50 Topics: medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'absence of the sense of pain': 62 38
  2. (pharmacology) An analgesic (medication that acts to relieve pain). Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Pharmaceutical drugs
    Sense id: en-analgesia-en-noun-wtpqEeUW Categories (other): English terms with collocations, English links with manual fragments Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 50 50 Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: antalgesia [rare] Derived forms: analgesic, antianalgesia, audioanalgesia, congenital analgesia, cryoanalgesia, electroanalgesia, oligoanalgesia Related terms: algesia, antalgesic, painkiller

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      ],
      "word": "analgèsia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "absence of the sense of pain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "anàlgia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "absence of the sense of pain",
      "word": "analgesia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "absence of the sense of pain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "analgésie"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "absence of the sense of pain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "analgie"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "absence of the sense of pain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "analxesia"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "absence of the sense of pain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Analgesie"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "absence of the sense of pain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "analgesia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "absence of the sense of pain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "analgezja"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "absence of the sense of pain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "analgesia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "absence of the sense of pain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "analgia"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "absence of the sense of pain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "analgesia"
    }
  ],
  "word": "analgesia"
}

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