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Anaesthesia
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01447b.htmA term in medicine, and the allied sciences, signifying a state of insensibility to external impressions, consequent upon disease, or induced artificially by the employment of certain substances known as anæsthetics, or by hypnotic suggestion.
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