Human Sense Organs | Learn about five Senses

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19 Feb 201706:23

Summary

TLDRThis educational video script delves into the human body's five senses: sight, taste, sound, touch, and smell. It explains how each sense functions, using the eyes for sight, the tongue for taste, the ears for sound, the skin for touch, and the nose for smell. The script provides a detailed look at the anatomy and mechanisms behind these senses, such as the role of the cornea, pupil, lens, and retina in vision; taste buds on the tongue; and the eardrum, auditory canal, and cochlea in hearing. It also highlights the number of sensory cells in the ears and taste buds on the tongue, emphasizing the complexity and importance of these senses in our daily lives.

Takeaways

  • πŸ‘€ The sense of sight is facilitated by the eyes, which use the cornea, pupil, lens, vitreous, retina, and optic nerves to process light and send visual signals to the brain.
  • πŸ‘… The sense of taste is detected by the tongue, which has taste buds on the surface that contain sensory cells and nerve fibers to identify flavors and send this information to the brain.
  • πŸ‘‚ The sense of sound is processed by the ears, which include the outer ear, eardrum, and inner ear, converting sound waves into nerve impulses that the brain interprets.
  • πŸ–οΈ The sense of touch is experienced through the skin, particularly the dermis layer with nerve endings that detect temperature, pressure, texture, and pain, and communicate with the brain and spinal cord.
  • πŸ‘ƒ The sense of smell is detected by the nose, where odor molecules dissolve in mucus and stimulate olfactory receptor cells, creating nerve impulses that are sent to the brain's olfactory system.
  • πŸ• The script uses everyday examples like a pizza shop and a chocolate bar to illustrate how the five senses are used in daily life.
  • 🚸 The importance of the sense of sound is highlighted by an example of how it can alert us to danger, such as a car horn, emphasizing its role in safety.
  • 🌈 The script explains the structure and function of each sense organ in a simple and engaging way, making complex biological processes accessible.
  • 🧠 The brain plays a central role in processing information from all five senses, integrating these signals to create our perception of the world.
  • πŸ” The script provides interesting facts about the senses, such as the number of taste buds on the tongue and sensory cells in the ears, enhancing understanding of these sensory systems.
  • 🌟 The video aims to educate and engage the audience, encouraging a deeper interest in the science behind our senses.

Q & A

  • What are the five senses mentioned in the script?

    -The five senses mentioned in the script are the sense of sight, sense of taste, sense of sound, sense of touch, and sense of smell.

  • How do our eyes work to help us see?

    -Our eyes work by allowing light rays to enter through the cornea, pupil, and lens. These rays pass through the vitreous humor and are focused on the retina, where the macula provides fine vision and the surrounding area gives peripheral vision. The retina converts the light rays into signals sent through the optic nerve to the brain, enabling us to see.

  • What are the four types of taste buds on the tongue?

    -The four types of taste buds on the tongue are the fungiform, foliate, circumvallate, and the unnamed fourth type referred to as 'funky form' in the script.

  • How does the sense of sound work in our ears?

    -The sense of sound is detected by the ears, which consist of the outer ear, external auditory canal, eardrum, and three small bones (anvil, hammer, and stirrup). Sound vibrations pass through these structures and reach the cochlea, a spiral-shaped, fluid-filled structure lined with hair cells. These cells move and create nerve impulses that are sent to the brain, allowing us to hear sounds.

  • What are the four sensations that make up the sense of touch?

    -The sense of touch is a mixture of four sensations: the sensation of cold, the sensation of warm, the sensation of pressure, and the sensation of pain.

  • How does the sense of smell work in our nose?

    -The sense of smell works when odors enter the nose, dissolve in the mucus, and stimulate the hair-like endings of olfactory receptor cells. This process generates nerve impulses that travel to the brain, specifically the olfactory system, allowing us to smell.

  • What is the largest organ in the human body according to the script?

    -The largest organ in the human body, as mentioned in the script, is the skin because it covers the entire body.

  • How many taste buds can our tongue have?

    -Our tongue can have between 2,000 to 8,000 taste buds.

  • What is the smallest bone in our body, and where is it located?

    -The smallest bone in our body is the stapes, which is located in our ears.

  • How many sensory cells do our ears have approximately?

    -Our ears have approximately 24,000 sensory cells.

  • What is the role of the macula in the eye?

    -The macula in the eye is responsible for providing fine, central vision, allowing us to see details clearly.

Outlines

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πŸ‘€ Understanding Our Senses: Sight and More

This paragraph introduces the concept of the five senses and their importance in interpreting the world around us. It explains how each sense contributes to our awareness, using examples such as sight for watching a pizza shop, taste for enjoying a chocolate bar, sound for hearing a car horn, touch for feeling pain from a stone, and smell for detecting pizza aromas. The paragraph then delves into the anatomy and function of the sense of sight, detailing how light rays enter the eye, pass through the cornea, pupil, and lens, and are focused on the retina where they are converted into signals sent to the brain via the optic nerve. It also touches on the structure of the eye, including the macula for central vision and the peripheral retina for side vision.

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πŸ‘… Exploring Taste, Sound, Touch, and Smell

The second paragraph continues the exploration of the senses by discussing the sense of taste, explaining how the tongue with its taste buds analyzes flavors. It describes the structure of the ear and how it processes sound, including the role of the eardrum, the three small bones (anvil, hammer, and stirrup), and the cochlea. The sense of touch is also covered, highlighting the skin's layers and nerve endings that allow us to feel various sensations such as heat, cold, pressure, and pain. The paragraph concludes with an introduction to the sense of smell, explaining how odors are detected by the nose's olfactory receptor cells and how this information is processed by the brain's limbic system. The video ends with interesting facts about the senses, such as the number of taste buds on the tongue and sensory cells in the ears, and encourages viewers to stay tuned for more educational content.

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Keywords

πŸ’‘Five Senses

The five senses refer to the ways humans perceive the world around them through sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. In the video, the five senses are central to understanding how we interact with our environment. The script explains how each sense is crucial for interpreting our surroundings, such as using sight to watch a pizza shop or hearing to become alert to a car's horn.

πŸ’‘Sense of Sight

The sense of sight is the ability to see and perceive visual information. The video describes how light enters the eye through the cornea, pupil, and lens, and is focused on the retina, which contains the macula for fine vision and peripheral vision. This sense is vital for activities like reading a comic book or admiring a rainbow, as mentioned in the script.

πŸ’‘Sense of Taste

The sense of taste allows us to perceive flavors through our tongue. The video explains that taste buds, containing sensory cells, are located on the tongue's surface and are responsible for detecting different tastes. This sense is highlighted in the script when discussing how we know the flavor of our favorite ice cream.

πŸ’‘Sense of Sound

The sense of sound is our ability to hear and process auditory information. The video script details the structure of the ear, including the eardrum and the three small bones (Anvil, Hammer, and Stirrup) that transmit sound vibrations to the cochlea, where they are converted into nerve impulses, enabling us to hear.

πŸ’‘Sense of Touch

The sense of touch involves the perception of physical contact and pressure through the skin. The video mentions that the skin, particularly the dermis layer, contains nerve endings that send and receive information about touch, temperature, and pain. This sense is essential for feeling the texture of objects or the temperature of the environment.

πŸ’‘Sense of Smell

The sense of smell is the ability to detect and discriminate between different odors. The video script describes how smells enter the nose, dissolve in mucus, and stimulate the olfactory receptor cells, generating nerve impulses that are sent to the brain. This sense is crucial for identifying various scents, such as the smell from a pizza shop in the script.

πŸ’‘Cornea

The cornea is the transparent front part of the eye that covers the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber. In the video, it is mentioned as the initial point where light enters the eye, playing a critical role in the sense of sight by helping focus light onto the retina.

πŸ’‘Retina

The retina is the light-sensitive tissue lining the inner surface of the eye that is responsible for converting light into neural signals. The video explains that the retina contains the macula for central vision and is essential for the sense of sight, as it is where the image is formed and sent to the brain via the optic nerve.

πŸ’‘Taste Buds

Taste buds are the sensory structures on the tongue that allow us to perceive taste. The video script mentions that these buds contain taste hairs and sensory cells that analyze flavors and send this information to the brain, enabling us to identify what we are tasting.

πŸ’‘Eardrum

The eardrum, also known as the tympanic membrane, is a thin membrane that separates the outer ear from the middle ear. The video script describes how sound waves cause the eardrum to vibrate, which is a crucial step in the sense of sound as it initiates the process of hearing.

πŸ’‘Dermis

The dermis is the layer of skin beneath the epidermis, containing nerve endings, blood vessels, and other structures. In the video, it is mentioned as a key component of the sense of touch, as it contains the nerve endings that send signals related to touch, temperature, and pain to the brain.

πŸ’‘Olfactory Receptor Cells

Olfactory receptor cells are specialized neurons in the nose that detect odor molecules. The video script explains that these cells generate nerve impulses when stimulated by smells, which are then sent to the brain, allowing us to perceive different odors.

Highlights

The five senses help us interpret the world around us.

Sight is used for watching things and is crucial for reading and seeing colors.

Taste is experienced through the tongue, which has different types of taste buds.

Sound is sensed by the ears, which have a complex structure to capture and process auditory information.

Touch is a combination of sensations detected by the skin, which is the largest organ of the body.

Smell is detected by the nose, where odor molecules interact with olfactory receptor cells.

The eye's cornea, pupil, and lens work together to focus light on the retina.

The macula in the retina provides fine central vision, while the peripheral retina gives side vision.

Taste buds on the tongue contain sensory cells that send flavor information to the brain.

The eardrum and three small bones in the ear help in the transmission of sound vibrations.

The cochlea in the ear converts vibrations into nerve impulses that the brain interprets as sound.

The skin's dermis contains nerve endings that send touch sensations to the brain.

The sense of touch includes feelings of cold, warm, pressure, and pain.

Fingers, lips, and the nose have more nerve endings, making them more sensitive to touch.

The brain's olfactory system processes the information from the sense of smell.

The tongue can have between 2,000 to 8,000 taste buds.

Ears have approximately 20,000 to 24,000 sensory cells for hearing.

The stapes is the smallest bone in the body, located in the ear.

Transcripts

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today we will learn about five

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senses

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yummy

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oh gosh be careful when you cross the

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road did you notice your sense of sound

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saved you from a major accident we have

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five senses in our body the five senses

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interpret the world around us as we can

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find out and grasp whatever is happening

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around us are you aware just now you

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have used your five senses you used your

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sense of sight while watching the pizza

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shop your sense of taste was used while

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having the chocolate bar our sense of

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sound was used when you heard the car's

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horn and became alert you remember when

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you were hurt due to the stone at that

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time you used your sense of

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touch you were tempted by the smell from

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the pizza shop it was your sense of

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smell let's learn about our body parts

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that help us use our senses before that

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let's revisit the five senses once again

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they are sense of sight sense of taste

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sense of sound sense of touch and sense

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of smell cool you look excited to learn

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about it so we will first learn about

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the sense of sight which part of your

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body lets you read your favorite comic

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book and check out the beautiful rainbow

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outside which part lets you cry when

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you're

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upset yes r

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eyes let's understand how our eyes work

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rays of light enter the eyes through the

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cornea pupil and lens these Rays pass

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through a gel-like structure called

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Vitus these rays are focused on the

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retina in the center of the retina there

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is the macula that provides us a fine

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Vision the area of retina that surrounds

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the macula gives us our side Vision or

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peripheral vision

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the retina converts the Rays into

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signals that are set through the optic

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nerves of the brain thus we are able to

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see everything around

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us you are a smart boy let's learn about

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our sense of taste the organ that is

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used for Taste is our tongue let's see

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how it works on the surface of the

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tongue there is pilli that look like

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bumps these are the four types Philly

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form foliate circumvallate and funky

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form the taste buds are located on the

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walls of pil they have the taste hairs

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taste pores sensory cells and the nerve

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fibers a flavor enters in The Taste pore

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and sensory cells analyze the flavor and

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send the information about it to the

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nerve fibers they send the details to

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the brain and thus we know the flavor

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that we tasted now you know how you come

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to know the flavor of your favorite ice

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cream seems like you're having fun

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learning this now let's learn about the

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sense of sound the organ that is used to

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sense sound is our ears let us first

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understand the structure of ears look

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closely this is the outer part of the

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ear called PA the canal likee structure

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is called the external auditory canal

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here is a membrane known as an eardrum

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there are three small bones the Anvil

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hammer and sturup together it passes

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vibrations to CIA a spiral-shaped fluid

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filled in the ear it is lined with

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psyllium which moves when it vibrates

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this vibration creates nerve impulses

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and thus we hear sounds now let's

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understand how does our sense of touch

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work we can feel hot and cold pain and

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pressure all through our skin now look

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closely the skin has many layers the

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inner layer is known as dermis dermis

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has so many nerve endings these nerves

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can send and receive information into

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the spinal cord and brain the spinal

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cord in the brain tells us what to do

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next touch is actually not a single

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sensation it is a mixture of four

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Sensations the sensation of cold the

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sensation of warm the sensation of

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pressure that alerts us if the layer is

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smooth or or rough and The Sensation of

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pain parts of our body like fingers lips

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and nose have more nerve endings so they

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are more

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sensitive now it's time to learn about

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our sense of smell the organ which is

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used for smell is our nose look closely

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here at first a smell enters in our nose

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there is mucus inside the nose where the

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smell dissolves then they stimulate the

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hair like endings of our allory receptor

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cells this process generates a nerve

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impulse which travels directly to our

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brain the part of the brain that

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processes smells is known as the lyic

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system thus we smell things now you know

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about the five senses of your body let's

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review a few interesting facts about our

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five senses our tongue can have 2,000 to

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8,000 taste buds our ears have

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approximately 20 24,000 sensory cells

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the sturrup is the smallest bone in our

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body that's in our ears our skin is the

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largest organ we have because it covers

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our whole

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body I hope you like this video stay

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tuned for more science videos and keep

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helping

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others

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