Analgesia


absence of sense of pain.
noun
inability to feel pain
the relief of pain
n.

“absence of pain,” 1706, medical latin, from greek -n-lgesia “painlessness, insensibility,” from -n-lgetos “without pain, insensible to pain” (also “unfeeling, ruthless”), from an- “not” (see an- (1)) + algein “to feel pain” (see -algia).

-n-lgesia an·al·ge·si·a (ān’əl-jē’zē-ə, -zhə)
n.
a deadening or absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness.

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