temperature sense

Skin has cold and warm receptors {temperature sense} {temperature receptor}. Coolness and warmth are relative and depend on body-tissue relative average random molecule speed. Very cold objects can feel hot at first.

Nociceptive and thermal receptor systems interact. Tactile and thermal receptor systems interact. Warmth and coolness have no pressure.

Nose and tongue thermoreceptors adjust food-digestion enzymes.

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