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Nerve Messengers
Rapid reflexes
If you accidentally prick your finger on a pin, you pull your hand ...
Going numb
If you lie on your arm or cross your legs for too long, they may go ...
DID YOU KNOW?
Even before you are born, thousands of your neurones die each day. ...
Automatic action
A separate set of nerves controls automatic functions, such as ...
Lightning reactions
Some nerve signals travel along your nerves at speeds of about 120m ...
Go to sleep
If you have an operation, or a filling at the dentist's, you are ...
Amazing But True
An adult has some 75km (46 miles) of nerves, enough to stretch over ...
Crossing the gap
The axon of one neurone does not actually touch the dendrites of the ...
What a nerve!
Nerves are made up of bunches of hundreds of long fibres belonging to ...
Taking a back road
Your delicate spinal cord runs down a tunnel of holes in your ...
Nervous system
Your brain, nerves and spinal cord form your body's nervous system. ...