Analgesia

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  • noun. A deadening or absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In pathology, the incapacity of feeling pain in a part, although the tactile sense may be more or less preserved. Also called analgia.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Absence of sensibility to pain.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The absence of the sense of pain while remaining conscious.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness
  • Word Usage
    "With respect to acupuncture analgesia-and the term analgesia not anaesthesia should be used-may I most emphatically state that it does work, and it works very well."
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