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Analgesia

Meaning in veterinary medicine, with examples

/ˌænəlˈdʒiːziə/nounCommon term

In veterinary medicine, analgesia means: Relief of pain with drugs or other methods, or the absence of pain in a conscious animal. A drug that does this is an analgesic.

In Turkish: analjezi, ağrı kontrolü, ağrı kesme

How it is used

Vets plan analgesia before, during and after surgery and use pain scores to judge whether it is working. Common drug groups are NSAIDs, opioids and local anaesthetics. With owners, vets say pain relief or painkillers.

Example sentences

  1. Her pain score dropped after we increased the analgesia.

  2. Multimodal analgesia combines drugs that work in different ways.

Common collocations

  • multimodal analgesia
  • post-operative analgesia
  • provide analgesia
  • adequate analgesia
  • pain score
  • NSAIDShort for non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug: a medicine that reduces pain, inflammation and fever without being a steroid, such as meloxicam or carprofen.
  • anaesthesiaA controlled state, produced with drugs, in which an animal feels no pain and is usually unconscious, so that surgery or other procedures can be done safely.
  • premedicationDrugs given before a general anaesthetic to calm the animal, reduce pain and lower the amount of anaesthetic needed. Usually shortened to premed.
  • castrationRemoving a male animal's testicles, or destroying their function, so that it cannot breed and produces less male hormone.

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