human sensory reception...experience of acute pain is mediated by two types of primary afferent nerve fibres that transmit electrical impulses from the tissues to the spinal cord via the ascending nerve tracts. The A delta fibres are the larger and the most rapidly conducting of the two types, because of their thin myelin covering, and, therefore, they are associated with the sharp, well-localized pain that...
A delta fibre
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