algesi-, alge-, alges-, algesio-, algi-, algio-, -algesia, -algesic, -algetic, -algic, -algia, -algy
(Greek: pain, sense of pain; painful; hurting)
Used actively in medical terminology to denote a condition of sensitivity to pain as specified by the combining root.
merocoxalgia
A painful condition of the thigh and hip.
metatarsalgia
Pain in the forefoot in the region of the heads of the metatarsals.
mononeuralgia
Pain along the course of one nerve.
muscular hyperalgesia
Pain induced by movement in fatigued muscles.
myalgia, myalgic
1. A morbid condition of a muscle, characterized by pain and tenderness; muscular rheumatism.
2. Muscular pain; also, myodynia, myoneuralgia, myosalgia.
neogamalgia
Painful coitus of newlyweds, especially of the female partner.
nephralgia
Pain in the kidneys.
neuralgia
Pain of a severe, throbbing, or stabbing character in the course or distribution of one or more nerves (especially of the head or face); also, neurodynia.
neuroleptoanalgesia
A state of analgesic consciousness produced by the administration of neuroleptic drugs, allowing painless surgery to be performed on a wakeful subject.
nostalgia, nostalgy
1. Longing to return home or to one's native land; homesickness.
2. A mixed feeling of happiness, sadness, and longing when recalling a person, place, or event from the past.
3. Originally a medical term for a severe melancholia caused by protracted absence from home.
4. The pain of longing to return home, to a former time in one’s life, or to familiar people and surroundings; severe home sickness.
5. Etymology: from 1770, "severe homesickness" (considered as a disease), Modern Latin, coined in 1668 by Johannes Hofer as a rendering of German
heimweh, from Greek
nostos, "homecoming" +
algos, "pain, grief, distress". Transferred sense (the main modern one) of "wistful yearning for the past" was first recorded in 1920.
The transferred sense of "wistful yearning for a past or earlier time", was first recorded in D.H. Lawrence's The Lost Girl in 1920.
Homesickness or a strong desire to return to one's home
The pain of longing to return home, to a former time in one’s life, or to familiar people and surroundings; severe home sickness. This illustration suggests that at least one of the Panda bears wants to return to China, its native land.
A nostalgic feeling is considered to be a mixed feeling of happiness, sadness, and longing when recalling a person, place, or event from the past.
notalgia
Pain in the back without inflammatory symptoms; also, dorsalgia.
nyctalgia
1. Pain that occurs only during sleep at night or any recurrent nocturnal pain.
2. Pain occurring mainly at night or during sleep.
3. Denoting especially the pains of syphilis that occur at night; also known as, “night pain”.
odontalgia
An aching tooth; toothache.
odontoneuralgia
Facial neuralgia caused by a carious tooth.
omalgia
Pain in the shoulder; usually, rheumatism in the shoulder.
Cross references related to "pain, hurt; suffering, injury" word families:
-agra;
algo-;
angina-;
dolor-;
Masochism;
noci-;
odyno-;
poen-;
pono- (toil, work; pain);
Sadism.
You may take a few self-scoring quizzes over some of the words in this unit by going to Algesi Quiz #1 to check your word knowledge of these words.