Crossword-Solution: ANALGESIA 9 letters, 19 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

That I might not be mistaken, I repeated the operation until I was confident that anaesthetics possessed a power not hitherto known--that of analgesia.

When a subject is thrown into a trance, I may expect the hypnotic phenomena known to me: lethargy, abulia, anaesthesia, analgesia, catalepsy, and every kind of susceptibility to suggestion.

After division of a nerve containing sensory fibres, there is an area of absolute cutaneous insensibility to touch (anæsthesia), to pain (analgesia), and to all degrees of temperature--_loss of protopathic sensibility_; surrounded by an area in which there is loss of sensation to light touch, inability to recognise minor differences of temperature (72°–104° F.), and to appreciate as separate impressions the contact of the two points of a compass--_loss of epicritic sensibility_ (Head and Sherren) (Figs.

While chloroform has served these purposes fairly well, there have been numerous drawbacks and certain dangers; and it was the knowledge of these limitations in the use of both chloroform and ether, that has led to further experimentation and the development of these newer methods of producing satisfactory analgesia--freedom from pain--without bringing about such a state of profound anesthesia as accompanies the administration of the older methods.

Analgesia is the first stage of anesthesia--the "twilight zone" of approaching unconsciousness--in which the sense of pain is greatly dulled or entirely lost, while even that which is experienced is not remembered.