Nociceptors Quotes & Sayings

Acute pain is triggered by stimulation of peripheral nociceptors in the skin or deeper structures and is a complex process involving multiple mediators at various levels of the neuraxis (Figure 3-2). — Jean-Louis Vincent

A worm of fear wriggled in Jaden's stomach, and the ethereal assuredness he channeled moments before evaporated as the worm burrowed deeper. When he next spoke, his own voice of trapped hysteria broke through, the worm having reached journey's end. — Courtney Kirchoff

In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children still in college, and no job. — Herb Trimpe

You have to look at what a person does with his life. Anyone can say that he's a Christian, but you look at how they live. — Franklin Graham

There is asymmetry. Those who die do so very early in the game, while those who live go on living very long. Whenever there is asymmetry in outcomes, the average survival has nothing to do with the median survival. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The labeling of nociceptors as pain fibers was not an admirable simplification, but an unfortunate trivialization under the guise of simplification. — Patrick David Wall

But it was pure, this love that I was feeling. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The best way never to fall is ever to fear. — William Jenkyn