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THE WORLD THROUGH OUR SENSES PT1
Monday, September 29, 2014 ? 0 Atashinchi ?
The sense of touch is the sense that is sensitive towards the touch
stimulus provided by specific objects.
2. Organ involve in the detection of touch stimulus is the skin.
3. Structure of human skin:
a) The skin divided into three layer epidermis, dermis, fat layer
  (subcutaneous layer @ adipose layer @ fat layer)
b) Receptors are cell in our body that detected stimuli.
c) Our body have different types of receptors. These are:
i. pain receptor
ii. touch receptor
iii. heat receptor
iv. cold receptor
v. pressure receptor 
d) The pain receptor is in the epidermis.
e) The touch, heat and cold receptors are in the dermis. The
pressure receptors are in the fat layer.
f) Each type of receptor can detect only one particular stimulus.
g) The part or our body contain receptor are called sensory organs
h) These receptor have nerves attached to them
The part of the body that have thin epidermis and many receptors
sensitive to touch are
a) lips
b) fingertips
c) behind the ears
d) armpit
e) the back of the neck
6. The part of the body that are not so sensitive to touch are the:
a) elbow
b) knee
c) palm of the hand and sole of the foot
d) buttocks/hip 



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