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Definition: Analgesia |
AnalgesiaNoun1. Absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "analgesia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
Etymology: Analgesia \An`al*ge"si*a\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression 'analghsi`a; 'an priv. 'a`lghsis sense of pain.]. (references) |
Crosswords: Analgesia |
| Specialty definitions using "analgesia": Acupuncture Analgesia, Alfentanil ♦ beta-Endorphin ♦ Dimethyl Sulfoxide ♦ Electroacupuncture ♦ Neuroleptanalgesia ♦ Thiorphan, Trichloroethylene. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Analgesia" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (analgesia), Portuguese (analgesia, indolence, painlessness), Spanish (analgesia). |
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Health | A focus of attention has been the role of endogenous opioids in acupuncture analgesia. (references) | |
Morphine and methadone are opioid narcotics (such drugs end in ine or one) that are sometimes used for regional analgesia and are administered as an injection. (references) | ||
General analgesia will likely be prescribed for any pain the patient may have. And bedrest is often recommended during the initial days and weeks after onset of the disorder. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Analgesia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.73% of the time. "Analgesia" is used about 79 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.73% | 78 | 37,656 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.27% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 79 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "analgesia": Acupuncture Analgesia ♦ Auricular analgesia. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "analgesia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | anestezi (anaesthesia, anesthesia), analgjezi. (various references) | |
Arabic | فقدان الألم, من غير فقد للوعي, اللاشعور بالألم. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | аналгезия, безчувственост (impassibility, insensibility, insensitivity, insusceptibility, stolidity, torpidity). (various references) | |
Danish | analgesi (painlessness). (various references) | |
Dutch | analgesie (painlessness), analgesia (painlessness), pijnverdoving (painlessness), opheffing van het pijngevoel (painlessness). (various references) | |
Farsi | تخفیف درد, بی حسی نسبت بدرد. (various references) | |
French | analgésie. (various references) | |
German | Schmerzlosigkeit (painlessness). (various references) | |
Greek | αναλγησία (heartlessness, mercilessness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | העדר תחושת כאב. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fájdalomérzés hiánya, analgézia. (various references) | |
Italian | analgesia (painlessness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | analgesiaay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | analgesia (indolence, painlessness). (various references) | |
Romanian | analgezie. (various references) | |
Russian | обезболивание (anaesthesia), местная анестезия (local anaesthesia), анальгезия. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | analgezija, otklanjanje bola. (various references) | |
Spanish | analgesia (painlessness). (various references) | |
Swedish | analgesi, oförmåga att känna smärta. (various references) | |
Turkish | analjezi, ağrının kesilmesi, ağrı yitimi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | знеболювання (anaesthesia, anesthesia). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "analgesia": analgesias. (additional references) | |
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"Analgesia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anagesia, analesia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "analgesia" (pronounced 'An`al*ge"si*a'): Abasia, Acinesia, AEsthesia, Akinesia, Amnesia, Anaesthesia, Antonomasia, Aphrasia, Aplasia, Athrepsia, Atresia, Dysaesthesia, Dyscrasia, Ecclesia, Eclampsia, Frambaesia, fuchsia, Halesia, Hemianaesthesia, hyperplasia, macroglossia, magnesia, Marsipobranchia, Monesia, Neoplasia, Palingenesia, Paralgesia, Parnassia, Paronomasia, Parousia, Parrhesia, Parusia, Passiflora, Phlegmasia, Photopsia, Polydipsia, Pseudaesthesia, Quassia, Rafflesia, Russia, Sauropsida, Silesia, Syngenesia, Tephrosia, Xenelasia. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-g-i-l-n-s" | |
-1 letter: analgias. | |
-2 letters: agnails, analgia, anlages, galenas, lasagna, lasagne, leasing, linages, sealing. | |
-3 letters: agnail, algins, aliens, aligns, alines, angels, angles, anlage, easing, elains, galeas, galena, genial, gleans, ingles, lagans, lanais, lasing, lianas, lianes, liangs, ligans, ligase, linage, lingas, nasial, salina, saline, signal, silage, silane, single. | |
-4 letters: aegis, again, agile, aisle, alane, alang, alans, algae, algas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-e-g-i-l-n-s" | |
+1 letter: analgesias. | |
+3 letters: egalitarians, megalomanias. | |
+4 letters: galactosamine, megalomaniacs. | |
+5 letters: egalitarianism, galactosamines, telangiectasia. | |
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