# Any part of the body not able to sense pain **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 13, 2002, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-part-of-the-body-not-able-to-sense-pain/103414 "2002-04-13T07:30:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-part-of-the-body-not-able-to-sense-pain/103414/21 "2002-04-14T13:14:00Z")
Or to treat battle wounds. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-part-of-the-body-not-able-to-sense-pain/103414/22 "2002-04-14T13:56:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mad Matt \* > \*\* > > Actually, it was called trepanning. Plenty of info on a Google. \*\* Alternate spelling is trephining. Plenty of info on Google on that, too. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-part-of-the-body-not-able-to-sense-pain/103414/23 "2002-04-15T23:41:38Z")
I can contribute that pancreatitis hurts like hell. The pain may or may not originate from the pancreas itself, though. Although, isn’t that kind of irrelevant? If I feel pain in my pancreas, I don’t really care which particular nerves are sending the signals. For that matter, we could say that the entire body, outside of the nervous system, is impervious to pain… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-part-of-the-body-not-able-to-sense-pain/103414.md?page=1)