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Definition of Algesia
1. sensitivity to pain [n -S]
Medical Definition of Algesia
1. Synonym: algesthesia. Origin: G. Algesis, a sense of pain (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Algesia
Literary usage of Algesia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Lived in Syria, and travelled (or visited) in Egypt. algesia [Gr. ... As ANalgesia (qv)
expresses the absence of the sense of pain, algesia expresses its ..."
2. Diseases of the heart by James Mackenzie (1908)
"Soon after this she began to suffer from pain from the heart affection, and the
hyper- algesia finally embraced nearly the whole of the left chest. ..."
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