Word: painproof
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...such cases, says Dr. Critchley, indifference to pain is congenital. No hereditary pattern has been detected; it occurs in different races, equally often in men and women. The painproof individuals sometimes have a poor sense of smell or taste, but their skins are anatomically normal, with the usual number of nerve endings. They feel the pinpricks or burns and can tell where they are located, but they do not react-perhaps because of an abnormality in the higher centers of the brain. In some, the indifference to pain seems to have worn off somewhat in later life. Strangely, there...
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