Goose bumps, the Glossary
Goose bumps, goosebumps or goose-pimples (also called chill bumps) are the bumps on a person's skin at the base of body hairs which may involuntarily develop when a person is tickled, cold or experiencing strong emotions such as fear, euphoria or sexual arousal.[1]
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57 relations: Adrenaline, Animal Behaviour (journal), Arrector pili muscle, ASMR, Autonomic dysreflexia, Bishop of Winchester, Brain tumor, Breathing, Cold, Cold chill, Cold turkey, Cotton-top tamarin, Cross Bones, Dermatology, Dopamine, Drug, Euphoria, Fear, Fight-or-flight response, Food, Frisson, Goosebumps, Hair follicle, Heroin, Horror film, John Murray (publishing house), Keratosis pilaris, Liberty of the Clink, Mammal, Metabolism, Money, Music, Musicae Scientiae (journal), Nature Neuroscience, New World monkey, Openness to experience, Opiate, Opioid, Opioid use disorder, Oxford English Dictionary, Porcupine, Scientist, Sebaceous gland, Sexual arousal, Sexual dimorphism, Sexually transmitted infection, Stress (biology), Sympathetic nervous system, Syphilis, Temporal lobe epilepsy, ... Expand index (7 more) »
- Skin physiology
Adrenaline
Adrenaline, also known as epinephrine, is a hormone and medication which is involved in regulating visceral functions (e.g., respiration).
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Animal Behaviour (journal)
Animal Behaviour is a double-blind peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1953 as The British Journal of Animal Behaviour, before obtaining its current title in 1958.
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Arrector pili muscle
The arrector pili muscles, also known as hair erector muscles, are small muscles attached to hair follicles in mammals.
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ASMR
An autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR)Marsden, Rhodri (20 July 2012),, The Independent.
Autonomic dysreflexia
Autonomic dysreflexia (AD) is a potentially fatal medical emergency classically characterized by uncontrolled hypertension and cardiac arrhythmia.
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Bishop of Winchester
The Bishop of Winchester is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Winchester in the Church of England.
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Brain tumor
A brain tumor occurs when abnormal cells form within the brain.
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Breathing
Breathing (spiration or ventilation) is the rhythmical process of moving air into (inhalation) and out of (exhalation) the lungs to facilitate gas exchange with the internal environment, mostly to flush out carbon dioxide and bring in oxygen. Goose bumps and Breathing are Reflexes.
Cold
Cold is the presence of low temperature, especially in the atmosphere.
Cold chill
A cold chill (also known as chills, the chills or simply thrills) is described by David Huron as, "a pleasant tingling feeling, associated with the flexing of hair follicles resulting in goose bumps (technically called piloerection), accompanied by a cold sensation, and sometimes producing a shudder or shiver." Dimpled skin is often visible due to cold chills especially on the back of the neck or upper spine.
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Cold turkey
"Cold turkey" refers to the abrupt cessation of a substance dependence and the resulting unpleasant experience, as opposed to gradually easing the process through reduction over time or by using replacement medication.
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Cotton-top tamarin
The cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus) is a small New World monkey weighing less than.
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Cross Bones
Cross Bones is a disused post-medieval burial ground on Redcross Way in Southwark, south London.
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Dermatology
Dermatology is the branch of medicine dealing with the skin.
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Dopamine
Dopamine (DA, a contraction of 3,4-dihydroxyphenethylamine) is a neuromodulatory molecule that plays several important roles in cells.
Drug
A drug is any chemical substance other than a nutrient or an essential dietary ingredient, which, when administered to a living organism, produces a biological effect.
Euphoria
Euphoria is the experience (or affect) of pleasure or excitement and intense feelings of well-being and happiness.
Fear
Fear is an intensely unpleasant primal emotion in response to perceiving or recognizing a danger or threat.
Fight-or-flight response
The fight-or-flight or the fight-flight-freeze-or-fawn (also called hyperarousal or the acute stress response) is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival.
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Food
Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support.
Frisson
Frisson (French for "shiver"), also known as aesthetic chills or psychogenic shivers, is a psychophysiological response to rewarding stimuli (including music, films, stories, people, photos, and rituals) that often induces a pleasurable or otherwise positively-valenced affective state and transient paresthesia (skin tingling or chills), sometimes along with piloerection (goose bumps) and mydriasis (pupil dilation).
Goosebumps
Goosebumps is a series of horror novels written by American author R. L. Stine.
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Hair follicle
The hair follicle is an organ found in mammalian skin.
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Heroin
Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is a morphinan opioid substance synthesized from the dried latex of the Papaver somniferum plant; it is mainly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects.
Horror film
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.
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John Murray (publishing house)
John Murray is a Scottish publisher, known for the authors it has published in its long history including Jane Austen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, Edward Whymper, Thomas Robert Malthus, David Ricardo, and Charles Darwin.
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Keratosis pilaris
Keratosis pilaris (KP; also follicular keratosis, lichen pilaris, or colloquially chicken skin) is a common, autosomal-dominant, genetic condition of the skin's hair follicles characterized by the appearance of possibly itchy, small, gooseflesh-like bumps, with varying degrees of reddening or inflammation.
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Liberty of the Clink
The Liberty of the Clink was an area in Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames, opposite the City of London.
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Mammal
A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.
Metabolism (from μεταβολή metabolē, "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms.
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Money
Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a particular country or socio-economic context.
Music
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content.
Musicae Scientiae (journal)
Musicae Scientiae is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of music psychology.
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Nature Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience is a monthly scientific journal published by Nature Publishing Group.
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New World monkey
New World monkeys are the five families of primates that are found in the tropical regions of Mexico, Central and South America: Callitrichidae, Cebidae, Aotidae, Pitheciidae, and Atelidae.
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Openness to experience
Openness to experience is one of the domains which are used to describe human personality in the Five Factor Model.
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Opiate
An opiate is an alkaloid substance derived from opium (or poppy straw).
Opioid
Opioids are a class of drugs that derive from, or mimic, natural substances found in the opium poppy plant.
Opioid use disorder
Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a substance use disorder characterized by cravings for opioids, continued use despite physical and/or psychological deterioration, increased tolerance with use, and withdrawal symptoms after discontinuing opioids.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
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Porcupine
Porcupines are large rodents with coats of sharp spines, or quills, that protect them against predation.
Scientist
A scientist is a person who researches to advance knowledge in an area of the natural sciences.
Sebaceous gland
A sebaceous gland or oil gland is a microscopic exocrine gland in the skin that opens into a hair follicle to secrete an oily or waxy matter, called sebum, which lubricates the hair and skin of mammals.
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Sexual arousal
Sexual arousal (also known as sexual excitement) describes the physiological and psychological responses in preparation for sexual intercourse or when exposed to sexual stimuli.
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Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.
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Sexually transmitted infection
A sexually transmitted infection (STI), also referred to as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and the older term venereal disease (VD), is an infection that is spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex, oral sex, or sometimes manual sex.
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Stress (biology)
Stress, whether physiological, biological or psychological, is an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition.
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Sympathetic nervous system
The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) is one of the three divisions of the autonomic nervous system, the others being the parasympathetic nervous system and the enteric nervous system.
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Syphilis
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum.
Temporal lobe epilepsy
In the field of neurology, temporal lobe epilepsy is an enduring brain disorder that causes unprovoked seizures from the temporal lobe.
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Thermal insulation
Thermal insulation is the reduction of heat transfer (i.e., the transfer of thermal energy between objects of differing temperature) between objects in thermal contact or in range of radiative influence.
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Thermoregulation
Thermoregulation is the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when the surrounding temperature is very different.
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Tickling
Tickling is the act of touching a part of a body in a way that causes involuntary twitching movements or laughter. Goose bumps and Tickling are Reflexes.
Turkey meat
Turkey meat, commonly referred to as just turkey, is the meat from turkeys, typically domesticated turkeys, but also wild turkeys.
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Vestigial response
A vestigial response or vestigial reflex in a species is a response that has lost its original function.
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Winchester Palace
Winchester Palace was a 12th-century bishop's palace that served as the London townhouse of the Bishops of Winchester.
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Yohimbine
Yohimbine, also known as quebrachine, is an indole alkaloid derived from the bark of the African tree Pausinystalia johimbe; also from the bark of the unrelated South American tree Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco.
See also
Skin physiology
- Absorption (skin)
- Allergic inflammation
- Collagen gel contraction assay
- Corneometry
- Cutaneous innervation
- Dermal equivalent
- Electrochemical skin conductance
- Electrodermal activity
- Goose bumps
- Human skin color
- List of types of tinea
- Photoprotection
- Photosensitivity
- Postoperative wounds
- Skin
- Skin equivalent
- Skin repair
- Skin temperature
- Transepidermal water loss
- Two-point discrimination
- Wound assessment
- Wound contracture
- Wound healing
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose_bumps
Also known as Chill bumps, Cutis anserina, Goose bump, Goose flesh, Goose pimple, Goose pimples, Goose-bumps, Goosebump, Gooseflesh, Horripilate, Horripilated, Horripilates, Horripilating, Horripilation, Piloerect, Piloerection, Piloerections, Pilomotor, Pilomotor reflex, Pilomotor reflexes.
, Thermal insulation, Thermoregulation, Tickling, Turkey meat, Vestigial response, Winchester Palace, Yohimbine.