Analgesia

Definitions

1. The inability to feel pain.
   countable, uncountable
2. A process of temporarily reducing the ability to feel pain; the provision of this service.
   countable, uncountable
3. A medication that performs this action: one that relieves pain.
   broadly, countable, metonymically, often, proscribed, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“epidural analgesia”

“This office procedure is quick and straightforward, but it does require⟳ some analgesia.”

“apply⟳ an analgesia”

“She was able to take⟳ analgesia orally.”

“Most physical distress yields to some analgesia—not so depression.”

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