Thermoreception

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temperature sense

Broader Terms

sensation

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

• This was a good example for the pedagogic purposes at hand because, for one, thermoreception is relatively simple (and hence, from simple physiological facts, certain arguments could be made).
• Advanced thermoreception is found in many members of the primitive families Boidae and Pythonidae and in Crotalinae, a sub-family of the advanced family Viperidae.
• This suggests that thermoreception is important in determining whether a prey item is live or dead (De Cock Buning 1983).
• Thermoreception is a process in which different amounts of heat energy are detected by living organisms.
• But the component of the effector outflow contributed by peripheral thermoreception is small; thus these findings may indicate that what is lacking in the afferent input is central thermoreception from below the lesion, possibly from the spinal cord itself.

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