Sentence examples for sensitive organ from inspiring English sources

DR. DAVID E. SAMUEL, a podiatric surgeon in Philadelphia, notes that the skin is a very sensitive organ and says that constant barefooting will increase that sensitivity, which seems to explain barefoot hikers' enjoyment.

To me, the brain was this complex, sensitive organ that, under normal circumstances, should never be looked at, breathed on or touched in any way.

A vast and ancient sheet of ice, a glacier is in effect the planet's most sensitive organ, like an aging knee that feels the onset of winter.

"The nose, believe it or not, is a sensitive organ and is capable of detecting low levels of hydrocarbons," said Joan Bowman of the International Food Protection Training Institute, a nonprofit organization financed by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.

The human eardrum is a very sensitive organ with a large dynamic range, being able to detect sounds at frequencies as low as 20 Hz (a very low pitch) up to about 20,000 Hz (a very high pitch).

In such a sensitive organ, a little trauma can mean the difference between vision and blindness, or motion and paralysis or even, as new research by Antonio Damasio of the University of Iowa suggests, between morality and psychopathy.The relationship between moral behaviour and brain anatomy was first highlighted in the 19th century by the example of Phineas Gage.

Exceedingly sensitive organs called sensilla are concentrated in organs of hearing.

Both sexes have highly sensitive organs on the forelegs for sound reception.

So why do we so love to assault one of the most sensitive organs in the human body, the tongue, with what amounts to chemical warfare?

In moths these sensitive organs can perceive the high-pitched sounds emitted by bats as they hunt by echolocation.

Chemically sensitive organs, used by many reptiles to find their prey, are located in the nose and in the roof of the mouth.