noun. A deadening or absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness.

noun. In pathology, the incapacity of feeling pain in a part, although the tactile sense may be more or less preserved. Also called analgia.

noun. Absence of sensibility to pain.

noun. The absence of the sense of pain while remaining conscious.

noun. absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness

"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."