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Crude touch and pressure sensations are functions of the spinothalamic pathway.

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Q: Why is the sense of touch so important?
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What is your most important sense from hear taste sight touch and smell?

Touch


What sense is more important the touch or hearing?

Taste


What is crude touch?

the opposite of fine touch, so it will be a more rough sense of touch. E!


What is related to sense of touch?

Sense of fell is related to sense of touch.


Is touch a chemical sense?

Touch is actually not considered to be a chemical sense. Touch is actually considered to be a physical type sense.


The sensory cortex is most critical for your sense of?

Sense of touch


Why is smell the most important sense?

Smell is not the most important sense, touch is the most important sense. Without touch, important involuntary functions would not function properly. Of all the senses, those who loose their sense of touch will typically not have a great life expectancy.When you loose your sense of touch, you also loose your sense of pain.You may be hurting your body and you may not even know it, because you can't feel anything.Science has shown that touch is necessary for life.touch your mate, when you get home.Most people would say sight comes second.


How does smoking affect the sense of touch?

smoking does not affect on the sense of touch according to smoking and while touching something it actually helps you guess right than bad answer so it does not affect.


Why is vision considered to be the most important sensory system in humans?

I don't think it is. I think the most important is sense of touch. Without it we would not feel heat or could and could die/ Pain would also not be felt so we wouldn't know when your bodies are in danger as fer as survival goes touch is most important in my opinion.


What is lack of sense of touch?

Generally not being able to sense touch is called Neuropathy.


Why do the face and finger tips have the most sensory receptors?

The sense of touch is important because it allows one to avoid damaging their skin by contact with noxious stimuli (like heat, or acid for e.g.). So evolutionarily 'touch' would have played a big role in the way humans learned to interact with their environments. Touch is of course important for other things too like braille reading for the blind, fine motor control of the digits (fingers), and sensual pleasure just to name a few.so that we could have a sense of feeling touch and pressure .


What is the medical term meaning diminished sense of touch?

Hypoesthesia is the term of a diminished sense of touch.