Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
analgesia
an·al·ge·si·a [ an-l-jee-zee-uh, -see-uh ]
Subclass of:
Anesthesia and Analgesia
Etymology:
Greek an = not + algos = pain + -ia = condition
Definitions related to analgesia:
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Methods of PAIN relief that may be used with or in place of ANALGESICS.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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State in which one feels little or no pain. Can occur under hypnosis and in dissociative disorder.Sadock's Comprehensive Glossary of Psychiatry and PsychologyBJ Sadock Titles Press, 2012
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Analgesia, loss of sensation of pain that results from an interruption in the nervous system pathway between sense organ and brain. Different forms of sensation (e.g., touch, temperature, and pain) stimulating an area of skin travel to the spinal cord by different nerve fibres in the same nerve...Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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