insensibility (in-sen-si-bil'it-e)

The quality or condition of being insensible; without bilitas.l feeling or sensation. [Lat., in sensi insertion (in-ser's hun). 1. The act of inserting. 2.The particular way in which anything is inserted; the manner or place of attachment of a body. 3. Of a muscle, the site of its attachment to the part that its action tends to move, marginal i. of the umbilical cord. The form of i. of the cord in which the character of the latter as a whole is maintained up to its i. at the margin of the plaGenta, 452 giving rise to the formation termed battledore placenta, vaginal i. The line of junction of the upper end of the vagina with the neck of the uterus. velamen to us i. Syn.: i. marginal is bifid a. That form of insertion of the umbilical cord into the placenta in which the ve els of the cord diverge from each other before entering the placenta, and the cord as a whole is inserted into the chorion, near the margin of the placenta. [Lat., insertio, from in, into, + severe, to plant.]