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analgesic

analgesic

See also: analgèsic

English

Noun

analgesic ‎(plural analgesics)

(pharmacology) Any medicine, such as aspirin, that reduces pain without inducing unconsciousness.
- 2004, Jocoby, David B. and Youngson, R. M., Encyclopedia of Family Health, Marshall Cavendish, pg. 137:
  I am taking an analgesic. Is it safe to drink alcholic beverages?
- 2010, Associated Press staff, Cadence signs option to buy Incline (original copy), Bloomberg Businessweek:
  Incline makes Ionsys, a potential analgesic for adult inpatients requiring opioid pain treatment after surgery.

Hyponyms

See also Wikisaurus:analgesic

Translations

medicine that reduces pain

Arabic: مسكن ألم
Armenian: ցավազրկող ‎(cʿavazrkoł)
Catalan: analgèsic m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鎮痛劑 (zh), 镇痛剂 (zh) ‎(zhèntòngjì), 止痛藥 (zh), 止痛药 (zh) ‎(zhǐtòngyào)
Czech: analgetikum (cs) n
Danish: lokalbedøvelse c, analgetikum n
Dutch: pijnstiller (nl) m
Esperanto: analgeziko
Estonian: valuvaigisti
Finnish: särkylääke (fi), kipulääke (fi), analgeetti (fi)
French: analgésique (fr) m
Galician: analxésico (gl) m
German: Analgetikum (de) n
Greek: αναλγητικό (el) n ‎(analgitikó)
Hebrew: שיכוך כאב
Hindi: दर्द निवारक du, n du ‎(dard nivārak) (formally),
Hungarian: fájdalomcsillapító (hu)
Indonesian: analgesik (id)
Inuktitut: ᐋᓐᓂᐊᓇᖏᑦᑐᑦ ‎(aannianangittut)
Italian: analgesico (it) m, lenitivo m

Japanese: 鎮痛剤 ‎(ちんつうざい, chintsūzai)
Korean: 진통제 (ko) ‎(jintongje)
Malay: analgesik
Polish: lek przeciwbólowy m, analgetyk m
Portuguese: analgésico m
Romanian: substanță analgezică f
Russian: анальге́тик (ru) m ‎(analʹgétik)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: аналгетик m

Latin: аnalgetik m
Slovak: analgézia f
Slovene: analgetik m
Spanish: analgésico (es) m
Swedish: analgetika (sv) c
Tamil: வலிநீக்கி ‎(valinīkki)
Thai: ยาบรรเทาปวด ‎(yaa bantao bpùat)
Turkish: analjezik (tr)
Ukrainian: анальгетик m ‎(analʹhetyk)
Urdu: مُسَـکِّن
Vietnamese:

References

"Analgesics". MeSH 2010, National Library of Medicine.

See also

painkiller

Adjective

analgesic ‎(comparative more analgesic, superlative most analgesic)

(medicine) Of or relating to analgesia; anodyne.

Translations

of or relating to analgesia

Catalan: analgèsic
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鎮痛劑的 (zh), 镇痛剂的 (zh) ‎(zhèntòngjì de), 止痛藥的 (zh), 止痛药的 (zh) ‎(zhǐtòngyào de)
Czech: analgetický m
Esperanto: analgezika
Finnish: kipua lievittävä, analgeettinen (fi)
Galician: analxésico (gl)

German: analgetisch (de)
Greek: αναλγητικός (el) m ‎(analgitikós)
Italian: analgesico (it)
Portuguese: analgésico
Romanian: analgezic (ro) m, n
Russian: анальгети́ческий (ru) ‎(analʹgetíčeskij), болеутоля́ющий (ru) ‎(boleutoljájuščij), обезбо́ливающий (ru) ‎(obezbólivajuščij)
Serbo-Croatian: analgetski, analgetički (sh)
Spanish: analgésico (es) m

References

“analgesic” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
analgesia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

angelicas