<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Medicine/Medical: general or local insensibility, as to pain and other sensations, induced by certain interventions or drugs to permit the performance of surgery or other painful procedures.</li><li>Pathology: general loss of the senses of feeling, as pain, heat, cold, touch, and other less common varieties of sensation.</li><li>Psychiatry: absence of sensation due to psychological processes, as in conversion disorders.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>