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Title: Which statement most accurately describes the mechanism that allows us to sense warmth and coolness?
Post by: redcandle on Oct 21, 2015
Which statement most accurately describes the mechanism that allows us to sense warmth and coolness?
A) There are only receptors for warmth and they work like a thermometer.
B) The brain integrates separate warm and cool signals.
C) Meissner corpuscles sense warmth and Merkel disks sense coolness; inputs from these receivers are directly "felt" by the brain.
D) There are only receptors for coolness and they work like a thermometer.


Title: Re: Which statement most accurately describes the mechanism that allows us to sense warmth and cooln
Post by: iwasten on Nov 1, 2015
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Title: Re: Which statement most accurately describes the mechanism that allows us to sense warmth and coolness?
Post by: redcandle on Nov 3, 2015
Cuts right to the chase lol Thanks for answering.