Touch
The somatosensory system is a diverse sensory system comprising the receptors and processing centres to produce the sensory modalities such as touch, temperature, proprioception (body position), and nociception (pain). The sensory receptors cover the skin and epithelia, skeletal muscles, bones and joints, internal organs, and the cardiovascular system.
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Famous quotes containing the word touch:
“when we touch
we enter touch entirely. No one’s alone.
Men kill for this, or for as much.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“A race horse needs only a touch of the whip; a clever person needs only a hint.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Sleep hath its own world,
And a wide realm of wild reality.
And dreams in their development have breath,
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)