what makes pain differentiate into various sensations such as shooting, stabbing, throbbing, aching, sharp, dull, etc?
In: Biology
How big the area causing the pain is, plus the method of damage of the tissue e.g. are the cells too hot, or physically cut, and therefore which types of nerve cells are stimulated (e.g. A-d fibres can be stimulated by mechanical or thermal stimuli, or C fibres which can be mechanical, thermal or chemical).
Some nerve fibres have special coatings (myelination) which allows the signal to travel faster e.g. A-d pain fibres
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