different between analgesia vs hyperalgesia

English

Etymology

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ????????? (analg?sía, “want of feeling, insensibility”), from ????????? (análg?tos), from ??- (an-, “not”) +? ????? (algé?, “feel bodily pain, suffer”) +? -??? (-tos, adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æn.?l?d??i?.zi.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æn.?l?d??i?.??/, /?æn.?l?d??i?.?i.?/, /?æn.?l?d??i?.zi.?/
• Rhymes: -i???

Noun

analgesia (countable and uncountable, plural analgesias)

1. (medicine) The inability to feel pain

   epidural analgesia

2. (pharmacology) Medication that acts to relieve pain

   She was able to take analgesia orally.

Synonyms

• analgia

Derived terms

• analgesic
• oligoanalgesia

Translations

References

• analgesia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “analgesic”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• “analgesia”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “analgesia”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Finnish

Noun

analgesia

1. analgesia

Declension

Italian

Etymology

Ancient Greek ana- +? algesia

Noun

analgesia f (plural analgesie)

1. analgesia

Portuguese

Noun

analgesia f (plural analgesias)

1. (medicine) analgesia (absence of the sense of pain)

   Synonym: analgia

Spanish

Noun

analgesia f (plural analgesias)

1. (medicine) analgesia (absence of the sense of pain)

Related terms

• analgésico

Further reading

• “analgesia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

hyper- +? algesia

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ha?.p?(?)?æl.d?i?z??/

Noun

hyperalgesia (countable and uncountable, plural hyperalgesias)

1. (medicine) An increased sensitivity to pain, which in one form is caused by damage to nociceptors in the body's soft tissues.

Antonyms

• hypoalgesia

Related terms

• algesia
• analgesia

Translations