Sentences with phrase «hairy skin»
The phrase "hairy skin" means having a lot of hair growing on the surface of your skin. Full definition
Interestingly, by recording the electrical activity in the spinal cords of mice depleted of NPY interneurons, the researchers discovered that the NPY neurons seem to selectively inhibit or gate light touch signals coming from hairy skin, but not the non-hairy (glabrous) skin, such as the skin found on your palm.
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All that hairy skin comes in handy too.
Though other research indicates pleasantness ratings were higher when hairy skin was stimulated, the findings confirmed we can perceive tactile pleasure using just our fingertips.
Affective touch is defined as soft stroke on hairy skin with a velocity of 1 - 10cms - 1.
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Thoroughly wash the taro, scrubbing to remove any dirt from the hairy skin.
«That means there's probably two different spinal touch sensory circuits, one for the glabrous skin and one for the hairy skin,» Bourane says.
This is a cross-section of a mouse dorsal spinal cord shows the close relationship between inhibitory interneurons expressing NPY (red), with touch sensory neurons arising from the hairy skin (green).
The nocturnal creatures with their hairy skin and tufted ears live deep in forests, but have been hunted relentlessly for their horns.
No, director Mona Achache's movie is no hairy skin - flick biopic, but instead a darkly comedic broadside aimed at stuffy French elitism, a movie very loosely of a sort with Gosford Park and the forthcoming The Women on the 6th Floor, written and directed by Philippe Le Guay.
She said it was very odd suturing around feathers rather than hairy skin!