Analgesia is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Analgesia in a sentence
Analgesia meaning
- The inability to feel pain.
- A process of temporarily reducing the ability to feel pain; the provision of this service.
- A medication that performs this action: one that relieves pain.
Synonyms of Analgesia
Using Analgesia
- The main meaning on this page is: The inability to feel pain. | A process of temporarily reducing the ability to feel pain; the provision of this service. | A medication that performs this action: one that relieves pain.
- Useful related words include: physiological state, physiological condition.
- In the example corpus, analgesia often appears in combinations such as: analgesia is, analgesia and, for analgesia.
Context around Analgesia
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 4 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Analgesia
- In this selection, "analgesia" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, topical, achieve, episodic, reducing, may and citation stand out and add context to how "analgesia" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include alcohol for analgesia is considered and both analgesia and drug. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "analgesia" sits close to words such as aami, abada and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with analgesia
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Its primary actions of therapeutic value are analgesia and sedation. (10 words)
Analgesics Analgesics (also known as "painkillers") are used to relieve pain (achieve analgesia). (13 words)
Endorphins, a contraction of the term endogenous morphines, are responsible for analgesia (reducing pain), causing sleepiness, and feelings of pleasure. (20 words)
Episodic analgesia may occur under special circumstances, such as in the excitement of sport or war: a soldier on the battlefield may feel no pain for many hours from a traumatic amputation or other severe injury. (36 words)
It is not addictive, and tolerance usually does not develop. citation However, tolerance may develop in single cases. citation Other classification systems Topical analgesia is generally recommended to avoid systemic side-effects. (32 words)
The dermatomal level of anesthesia required for Caesarean delivery is also higher than that required for labor analgesia. citation General anesthesia may be necessary because of specific risks to mother or child. (32 words)
Example sentences (11)
Analgesics Analgesics (also known as "painkillers") are used to relieve pain (achieve analgesia).
As such, in general, the idea of alcohol for analgesia is considered a primitive practice in virtually all industrialized countries today.
Both analgesia and drug addiction are functions of the mu opioid receptor, the class of opioid receptor first identified as responsive to morphine.
Endorphins, a contraction of the term endogenous morphines, are responsible for analgesia (reducing pain), causing sleepiness, and feelings of pleasure.
Episodic analgesia may occur under special circumstances, such as in the excitement of sport or war: a soldier on the battlefield may feel no pain for many hours from a traumatic amputation or other severe injury.
It is also used for pain due to myocardial infarction and for labor pains. citation Its duration of analgesia is about three to seven hours.
It is not addictive, and tolerance usually does not develop. citation However, tolerance may develop in single cases. citation Other classification systems Topical analgesia is generally recommended to avoid systemic side-effects.
Its primary actions of therapeutic value are analgesia and sedation.
Ketoprofen is also available as a 2.5% gel for topical application, and it is also available as a patch for topical analgesia and anti-inflammatory action.
The analgesia from scopolamine plus a strong opioid is deep enough to allow higher doses to be used as a form of anaesthesia.
The dermatomal level of anesthesia required for Caesarean delivery is also higher than that required for labor analgesia. citation General anesthesia may be necessary because of specific risks to mother or child.
Common combinations with analgesia
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- analgesia is 4×
- analgesia and 3×
- for analgesia 2×
- topical analgesia 2×