Anatomy

The human body is prepared to face all manner of injury and illnesses through a series of general first-line responses, followed by the more specialised and specific if required.

Even when doing something as idle as sitting, we are experiencing a myriad of different sensations all over the body caused by our environment and how we physically perceive it, some more noticeable than others. They include the obvious, like temperature, pressure, perhaps pain, light touch, itches, textures, the list goes on. Yet how exactly does our body pick up on all these interactions?