Med. [mod.L., a. Gr. ἀναλγησία painlessness, f. ἀν-άλγητ-ος painless, f. ἀν priv. + ἀλγέ-ειν to feel pain.] Insensibility to pain; painlessness. Distinguished from anæsthesia or total insensibility.
1706. Phillips, Analgesia, Indolency, a being free from Pain or Grief.
1876. Duhring, Dis. Skin, 525. The condition known as ‘analgesia’ or ‘anodynia,’ in which there is a loss of sensibility to pain.
1878. Foster, Phys., III. v. § 3. 484. There is analgesia but no anæsthesia.
