1.   From your current vantage point, you are well positioned to see how alcohol can get at these pain fibers.

2.   A patient usually does not feel the tube being pushed because the inner surface of the bowel has few pain fibers.

3.   Pain fibers are wrapped around taste buds.

4.   Patting at a rate of twice a second seems to inhibit the small pain fibers of the nervous system, providing some relief.

5.   Supertasters, who have a denser field of pain fibers, had the greatest increase in pain sensation.

6.   The chorda tympani, in particular, appears to exert an inhibitory influence on other taste nerves, as well as on pain fibers in the tongue.

7.   The dura is full of pain fibers, and these could create the headache associated with a severe brainfreeze.

8.   The structure of pain fibers and slow- touch fibers are similar, Olausson said.