Sentences with phrase «travels along nerves»

The sensation of touch starts in the peripheral nervous system — in receptors at the surface of the skin — and travels along nerves that connect into the central nervous system.

This, Leventhal explains, is due to the phenomenon known as referred pain, which causes a sensation originating at one spot to travel along the nerve root to other parts of the body.

It may inhibit pain impulses that travel along nerve fibers, acting as an analgesic.

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As Jesus slowly sags down with the weight of His body on the nails through His wrists, excruciating, fiery pain shoots along the most sensitive nerve endings in the body — called the median nerves — and travels along the fingers and up the arms to explode in the brain.

These signals then travel along the auditory nerve to the brain.

Axon extension of a nerve cell along which nerve impulses travel away from the cell body towards other cells.

Somewhat surprisingly, the researchers found that the entire parasympathetic nervous system arises from these progenitor cells that travel along the peripheral nerves.

What it is Pain (often located in your lower back or hip) that travels along your sciatic nerve, which runs from your lower back down through each of your legs.

Unlike the action potential that travels in a single direction along the efferent nerve, the propagating MAP travels in both directions along the muscle fiber from the motor point.

A pet with a problem in its spinal cord will have the reflex, but will not realize it is painful because the nerves that travel along the spinal cord to the brain are injured.

The sleigh will reach speeds of up to 90 miles per hour while travelling along a 1,500 m course, which includes 17 nerve - wracking bends.