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Dermatomes
As spinal chord nerves branch out into the body, some segments fan out across the skin; these are the nerves that monitor the surface and are the source of senses of touch, pain, hot, cold and distension. All this information is funnelled back in and up to the brain, which learned early on to correlate WHAT information comes from WHERE.
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