In medical jurisprudence. (1) Loss of sensatlon, or insensibility to paln, general or local, induced by the ad-ministration or application of certaiu drugs such as ether, nitrous oxide gas. or cocalue. (2) Defect of sensation, or more or less com-plete insensibility to pain, existing In various parts of the hotly as a result of certain diseases of the nervous system
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
