In Your Own Words. 1  The sense of touch let's people feel their surroundings; cold, warmth, texture, and pain. 2  This is when you can tell when you are cold, hot, or feeling pain. connected to the Somatosensory Cortex in the brain.
Facts about flatulence (gas), excessive, and chronic. 1  The definition of flatulence or intestinal gas is the state of having excessive stomach and/or intestinal gas (waste gas produced during digestion) that is usually released from the anus with sound and/or odor. Causes of excess gas in the digestive tract are swallowed air, breakdown of undigested foods, lactase intolerance, and.
Intestinal gas is composed of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and methane. These gases are generally odorless, but can become foul smelling when other gases, such as sulfates, are added. This occurs in two ways. First, if the gas remains in the intestines for an extended period of time, bacteria start adding foul smelling sulfates to it. The second thing that makes farts smelly is consuming foods that are high in sulfur.