Thanks to Voltarian technology, those bugs planted next to his optic and audio nerves would transmit in any temperature.
This contradicts medical science's current conception of the nervous system, which holds that nerves transmit pain, and do not store it.
Doctors used to be so confident that severed nerves could not transmit pain - they're severed!
Other nerves move information along much more slowly and transmit dull, aching, or burning pain.
Bell's discovery disproved the belief that nerves transmitted either vibrations or spirits.
Such nerves are arrayed throughout the muscles and skin, and transmit a message to the brain when stimulated.
The nerves transmit impulses more slowly than human nerves, but not much more.
Without these chemicals, the nerves in the skin cannot transmit pain or itch signals.
The pressure squeezes nerve pathways so that the nerves can't transmit electrochemical impulses properly.
There is a certain amount of re-adjustment time before the nerves transmit impulses correctly again.