The Five Senses Of The Human Body

The five senses of the human body are smell, taste, touch, hearing and vision. All five senses are crucial to our daily living. Without these senses, people will lose touch with themselves and the body there in. Our senses are activated by stimuli from events and things. The information is sent to the brain to interpret and the brain applies it to the appropriate actions. The smell sense is part of the chemosensory systems. The Chemosensory system is also known as the chemical sense. The chemosensory system composes of the smell and taste sense. The Chemosensory system is defined as a sensory cell or organ responsive to chemical stimuli. (Collins Dictionary of Medicine. (2004, 2005) The smell sense operate when the individuals’ inhales chemicals from that object into their body. The chemical or molecule of the object is floats through the air into the nose. We use the smell sense every time we are cooking, cleaning, showering, memories and etc. Everybody uses smell for eating. We generate our like for food by …show more content…
The taste sense is categorized in five basic tastes: sweetness, sourness, saltiness, bitterness, and umami. (The 5 Senses 2016.) Each of these senses are classify compounds into potentially nutritive and beneficial (sweet, salty, umami) or potentially harmful or toxic (bitter, sour). Tastants (the molecules sensed by taste) are quite distinct for the different groups. (Berg JM,2002) The chemicals in food we eat are classified into one of the five basic tastes. The basic senses of taste are good for the human body. For example, the bitter taste we feel in out mouth can have positives and healing qualities. Bitterness taste can improve digestion, improve live functions, and cleanses the blood. We taste every time we eat, drink and sometimes smell. When we eat, there are special areas of the tongue that reads each taste. When we smell objects and food in the air, our taste senses knows what it