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Definition of Analgia
1. inability to feel pain [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Analgia
Literary usage of Analgia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1852)
"It is a great deal longer in cases in which the application has been made with
the intention of producing insensibility to pain or analgia. ..."
2. Transactions of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society by Edinburgh Obstetrical Society (1872)
"alcohol was as good as chloroform, and described to me a sort of analgia. She said
she felt the child's progress without being conscious of pain. ..."
3. Handbook of the Diseases of the Nervous System by James Ross (1885)
"When muscular sensibility is lost, as tested by the faradic current, while the
muscular sense is retained, the condition is termed muscular analgia, ..."
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