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:
“So unrecorded did it slip away,
So blind was I to see and to foresee,
So dull to mark the budding of my tree
That would not blossom yet for many a May.
If only I could recollect it, such
A day of days! I let it come and go
As traceless as a thaw of bygone snow;
It seemed to mean so little, meant so much;
If only now I could recall that touch,
First touch of hand in hand—Did one but know!”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
““Don’t touch me, please I say, don’t touch me, please.
I’ll not be put to bed by you, my man.”
“Just as you say. Have it your own way, then.
‘My man is it?’ You talk like a professor....””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Don’t touch me! Don’t question me! Don’t speak to me! Stay with me!”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)