Analgesia

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  analgesia \an`al*ge"si*a\ ([a^]n`[a^]l*j[=e]"z[-e]*[.a]), n.
     [NL., fr. Gr. 'analghsi`a; 'an priv. + a`lghsis sense of
     pain.] (Med.)
     Absence of sensibility to pain. --Quain. AS
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  analgesia
       n : absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "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