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Definition of Numbness

1. Noun. Partial or total lack of sensation in a part of the body; a symptom of nerve damage or dysfunction.

2. Noun. The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally.

Definition of Numbness

1. n. The condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.

Definition of Numbness

1. Noun. Absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation. ¹

2. Noun. Inability or reduced ability to experience emotion. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Numbness

1. the state of being numb [n -ES]

Medical Definition of Numbness

1. Indefinite term for abnormal sensation, including absent or reduced sensory perception as well as paresthesias. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Numbness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1885)
"numbness of the Upper Extremities.—Dr. Sinkler says that the symptoms are ... The numbness generally began in one or both hands, and gradually extended up ..."

2. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations by David Hartley (1834)
"numbness, being a diminution of sensibility, ought, according to the doctrine of vibrations, to proceed from such causes, as either indispose the parts for ..."

3. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations by David Hartley (1834)
"numbness, being a diminution of sensibility, ought, according to the doctrine of vibrations, to proceed from such causes, as either indispose the parts for ..."

4. The Prescriber: A Dictionary of the New Therapeutics by John Henry Clarke (1897)
"numbness.—numbness and tingling, Aco. 3, 2h. numbness of the whole body, ac companied by pricking; numbness and insensibility of arms and legs, Phos. 3, 3h. ..."

5. Homœopathic therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1879)
"Occipital headache ; numbness in head and hands ; gidity of nape of neck: weakness and numbness in extremities. Gelsemium. Early stage of myelitis of the ..."

6. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1872)
"A boy, aged 18, had numbness of feet and face, with dropping of the hair, and scaly eruption ; there were two cases of " ma-mung " or anaesthesia, ..."

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