11 things you do not know your nose – One Santa Fe

Sense, taste, smell, touch and sight. Five senses and always smell is usually the least valued, the more people choose if they question which dispense if I had to give up one of them. The nose, as well as mark the physiognomy of each, is one of the most overlooked and most surprising appendices. Then, eleven things you do not know her as Infosalus stated in its Article 11 curiosities of the nose do not know.

1. Smell is the only sense that is fatigue. Before odors, the agency realizes them through the nose but after a few minutes, it is possible that the brain adapts. The other senses of the human body do not have this peculiarity.
2. Its development may extend into adolescence. The development of smell is linked to the skull so it is not recommended to operate the nose in women up to 15 or 16 years, and men up to 17 years. Over the years, you can lengthen and cartilage fall because of gravity and ligaments that support them is also broken.
3. The olfactory memory is the most powerful human being. The sense of smell is directly connected to the part of the brain that is associated with the attribution of emotional responses and memory. A smell can transport you to a time in your childhood: the smell is the sense that is more connected with our emotional memories
4. The first interventions dating from 3000 BC. Egyptian doctors performed interventions in the nose more than 3,000 years ago, according to some historical documents collected. This is an operation that is performed reconstruction after armed conflicts.
5. A Chinese ancestral discipline related to shape a good marriage. According to the ‘Face Reading’ Asian people straight nose, without scars and large they have good luck in marriage.
6. Air Conditioning. Among its features are the humidify, heat and clean the air entering our body to our lungs. Breathe through your nose correctly is vital to prevent possible diseases.
7. You can suffer from anosmia. If forgone nose smells, the smell can get to be completely abolished. These cases are known as anosmia and consist of the loss of function of smell. Approximately more than 15% of the population has some degree of loss of smell.
8. is the steepest part of the face. The nose is often the area of ​​the face where we most look to meet someone if not harmonious, and instead stands out for its beauty when you look under it, looking eyes and lips. Therefore, it marks the characteristic features and is one of the body parts most commonly operate.
9. When you lie, your nose does not grow but changes in temperature. Scientists from the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Granada published a study that when a person lies changes the temperature of the tip of his nose, known as’ Pinocchio Effect. The UGR explained that when a person lies the temperature of the tip of his nose up or down, at the same time also increases your body temperature in the area of ​​orbital muscle.
10. The smell is able to distinguish more a billion odors. An experiment of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics at Rockefeller University in New York, reveals that the human sense of smell can detect more than one billion mixtures of odors. The study’s authors tested the ability of volunteers and reached their conclusions based on the sensitivity of the nose and brain.
11. Rhinoplasty is the fifth most performed plastic surgery. It is the fifth most performed plastic surgery in Spain: one in a thousand citizens are subjected to this operation each year, the most common patients who are between 18 and 45 years.

Patients must undergo a functional type of intervention may also be a cosmetic operation. The best functionality is not incompatible in no time with cosmetic enhancement says Dr. José María Guilemany, specialist in otolaryngology and head and neck surgery.

Source: 20minutos.es