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As in a leg, a curious absence of pain
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analgesia
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"absence of pain," 1706, medical Latin, from Greek analgesia "painlessness, insensibility," from analgetos "without pain, insensible to pain" (also "unfeeling, ruthless"), from an- "not" (see an- (1)) + algein "to feel pain" (see -algia ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Analgesia \An`al*ge"si*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?; 'an priv. + ? sense of pain.] (Med.) Absence of sensibility to pain. --Quain. [1913 Webster] ||
Usage examples of analgesia.
Anhedonia was apparently coined by Ribot, a Continental Frenchman, who in his 19th-century Psychologic des Sentiments says he means it to denote the psychoequivalent of analgesia, which is the neurologic suppression of pain.
Within hours of each other there had been an admission from a car crash to set up on traction after Orthopaedics had finished patching him up and drips and analgesia to regulate in the sterile side ward for two young burns victims from a house fire.
Carbohydrates raise the level of the amino acid tryptophan in the bloodstream, which the brain uses to synthesize serotonin, a neurotransmitter associated with sleep, analgesia, calm, and even the lifting of depression.
Anesthesia was the loss of physical sensation, while analgesia was the inability to feel pain while conscious.
Owing to a complete lack of local anaesthetics he had been taught to conduct eye operations with no analgesia at all, a procedure that involved strapping down and gagging the patient, forcing their eyes open and simply hacking away.
December 1884 when, at the age of 33, he had invented nerve-block anaesthesia, a technique in which cocaine is injected into the region around a nerve cell in such a way as to induce localised analgesia all along that nerve.
And now the analgesia was leaving, and pain was beginning to come into his hands, his chest, his stomach and his legs.
There was no doubt that she needed some analgesia, but she was reluctant to ask for it because of the inevitable hypnotic effects.
In most centers they don't give any analgesia for biopsies, but we're more civilized.
Reeve muttered angrily, stamping up the steps injudiciously, jarring his sore body even through the analgesia.