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How are pain receptors distributed in the skin?

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Free nerve endings — neurons originating in the spinal cord, entering and remaining on the skin — transmit temperature and pain information from its base on the epidermis. The dermis hair receptors that are wrapped around growing follicle are sensitive to the pressure produced by the curing of the scalp.

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