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Homework Statement
To deaden pain in minor operations, a liquid that vaporises easily is often sprayed on the affected area. How does this prevent the pain being felt? Would water have the same effect?
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The Attempt at a Solution
Vaporises easily => absorbs heat quickly and leaves the skin. Does cooler skin at damaged area => less pain felt? How does one feel pain? Does one feel pain by sensory cells firing into the brain via the central nervous system? So a cooler temperature in the affected area => slower firing of these sensory cells? Hence brain registering pain slowly and decreased in magnitude as cool=>low energy on the cells behalf.