Why are burns felt immediately, while there’s a slight delay in sensation for cuts?
In: Biology
Not 100 percent certain but I think I know why.
Your receptors for heat are more sensitive and higher up in the skin, and your pain receptors have a higher threshold and is lower in your skin, thus you feel heat before pain.
And when you burn yourself you get the reflex that you are burning following by pain, but from experience, knowing that pain is coming, you would sense the signals for heat and preemptively feel pain.
Hope it makes sense, English is not my first language so I hope it is readable.
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