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analgesia

/ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.zi.ə//ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.ʒə/

analgesia noun: the inability to feel pain.

Noun

analgesia (countable and uncountable, plural analgesias)

  1. The inability to feel pain.
    • epidural analgesia
    Synonyms:
    analgia
  2. A process of temporarily reducing the ability to feel pain; the provision of this service.
    • This office procedure is quick and straightforward, but it does require some analgesia.
    Synonyms:
    pain relief
  3. (broadly, metonymically, often, proscribed) A medication that performs this action: one that relieves pain.
    • apply an analgesia
    • She was able to take analgesia orally.
    Synonyms:
    analgesic

analgesia meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

analgesia in Tamil

நோயின்மை, வலியின்மை, வலி உணர இயலா நிலை, வலியகற்றல்

analgesia in Urdu

دافِع درد

analgesia in Kannada

ನೋವಳಿಕೆ

Synonyms of analgesia

Forms of analgesia

pluralanalgesias
alternative formantalgesia

Origin of analgesia

From New Latin analgēsia, from Ancient Greek ἀναλγησίᾱ (analgēsíā, “want of feeling, insensibility”), from ἀνάλγητος (análgētos), from ἀν- (an-, “not”) + ἀλγέω (algéō, “feel bodily pain, suffer”) + -τος (-tos, adjectival suffix).

Words formed from analgesia

Words that rhyme with analgesia

Questions about analgesia

What does analgesia mean?
Analgesia means the inability to feel pain.
What is analgesia in Tamil?
Analgesia in Tamil is நோயின்மை, வலியின்மை, வலி உணர இயலா நிலை. See Analgesia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is analgesia?
Analgesia is a noun.
How do you pronounce analgesia?
Analgesia is pronounced /ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.zi.ə/ (UK).
What is the plural of analgesia?
The plural of analgesia is analgesias.

Words near analgesia in the dictionary

  1. analgen
  2. analgene
  3. analgese
  4. analgesed
  5. analgeses
  6. analgesia
  7. analgesias
  8. analgesic
  9. analgesically
  10. analgesics
  11. analgesimeter

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: analgesia (page history and authors); analgesia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); analgesia (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); analgesia (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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