Meaning of Analgesia | Babel Free

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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