nerve endings
Touch signal origins
Nerve endings are the terminal structures of nerve fibers that detect sensations like touch, temperature, and pain.
They're distributed throughout the body, concentrated in sensitive areas like fingertips and lips.
The phrase often appears in contexts of heightened sensation: Every nerve ending was on fire.
The massage worked out tension I didn't know I was holding in my nerve endings.
Of the touching sense
- fingertipsTerminal phalanx pads
- skinBody's outer layer
- pressureForce upon contact
- textureSurface tactile quality
sensation · ticklish · featherlight · prickling · gentle · contact · sensitive · brush
Related to perception
- neuronImpulse-conducting cell
- axonNeuron's signal-sending projection
- dendriteNeuron's input branch
- synapseNerve signal crossing point
neurotransmitter · impulse · signal · afferent · peripheral · mechanoreceptor · thermoreceptor · proprioceptor
tactile
Of the touching sense
- fingertipsTerminal phalanx pads
- skinBody's outer layer
- pressureForce upon contact
texture · sensation · ticklish · featherlight · prickling · gentle · contact · sensitive · brush · graze
sensory
Related to perception
synapse · neurotransmitter · impulse · signal · afferent · peripheral · mechanoreceptor · thermoreceptor · proprioceptor · encapsulated
ache
Persistent dull discomfort
- throbBeat with intensity
- discomfortMild physical or mental distress
- burningCombustion in progress
stabbing · shooting · soreness · tenderness · tingling · numbness · sharp · chronic · acute · dull
- touchtouch, feel, touching, caress, feeling
- sensessight, smell, taste, hearing, touch
- sensitivitysensitivity, sensitive, hypersensitivity, oversensitivity, hypersensitive
- skinepidermis, dermis, skin, cutis, pores
- nervous systembrain, neurons, spinal cord, axon, dendrite
- nervesspinal cord
nerve endingsbrain
Seat of cognition
central nervous system · spinal cord · cerebral cortex · soma · brainstem
nerve endingsbrain
Seat of cognition
sensory cortex · consciousness · cognitive processing · thalamus
nerve, nervous, ending, nerves, nervousness, nervy, nerveless, enervate, enervation