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单词 algesia
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algesian.

Brit. /alˈdʒiːzɪə/, U.S. /ælˈdʒiziə/, /ælˈdʒiʒə/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element; perhaps modelled on a French lexical item, or perhaps modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: Greek ἀλγησις , -ia suffix1.
Etymology: < ancient Greek ἀλγησις sense of pain ( < ἀλγεῖν to feel pain ( < ἄλγος pain: see -algia comb. form) + -σις -sis suffix) + -ia suffix1, after French algésie (1854 or earlier) or German Algesie (1860 or earlier); probably also influenced by analgesia n.
Medicine.
The sensation or perception of pain; (also) sensitivity to pain.
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1864 J. S. Romskill in Clin. Lect. & Rep. (Med. & Surg. Staff London Hosp.) I. 493 In the case of the woman we had two leading symptoms; algesia and shivering, that is to say, morbid affection of sensitive nerves, and also as I believe, irritation of the vaso-motor nerves, causing sudden contraction of the blood-vessels and thus the resulting shivering.
1891 Internat. Clinics July 240 On examination of his present condition we find decreased sensation in the legs and arms, with algesia delayed on the legs and arms but prompt on the face.
1915 Lancet 24 Apr. 881/1 But algesia, which Sir Clifford Allbutt dismisses as of ‘no clinical use’, has, I think, a way of cropping up in every case of the angina pectoris.
1936 Lancet 1 Aug. 244/1 Sometimes even with much care this pain is highly unpleasant—a sort of diagnostic algesia!
1989 European Jrnl. Pharmacol. 164 497 Selective drug inhibition studies suggest that some irritant-induced changes in algesia measured in the rat hindlimb result from release of dermal stores of serotonin.
2010 Brain Res. 1306 66/1 These findings indicate that histamine induces hyperalgesia and that the central histaminergic system is involved in algesia.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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