Insensibility Definition

Insensibility Sentence Examples

• It is customary to use oxygen in combination with chloroform, or nitrous oxide in order to produce insensibility to pain (see Anaesthetics).

• Here, as elsewhere, he revealed his insensibility to the ethical element in human nature.

• In Greece its insensibility to art and the cultivation of life was a fatal defect; not so with the shrewd men of the world, desirous of qualifying as advocates or jurists.

• The Roman governor is confounded by his insensibility to the most refined and ingenious tortures.

• Large doses also depress the nervous system, weakening the anterior horns of grey matter in the spinal cord so as ultimately to cause complete paralysis, and also causing a partial insensibility of the cutaneous nerves of touch and pain.