# What parts of the human body do not feel pain
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-parts-of-the-human-body-do-not-feel-pain/715025
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [March 15, 2015, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-parts-of-the-human-body-do-not-feel-pain/715025 "2015-03-15T02:13:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-parts-of-the-human-body-do-not-feel-pain/715025/21 "2015-03-16T02:52:25Z")
your hair ! Think what it would be like getting a hair cut if our hair felt pain !
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2015, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-parts-of-the-human-body-do-not-feel-pain/715025/22 "2015-03-16T03:05:50Z")
> [@purplehearingaid](#):
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> your hair ! Think what it would be like getting a hair cut if our hair felt pain !
As mentioned in the OP. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-parts-of-the-human-body-do-not-feel-pain/715025/23 "2015-03-16T19:09:25Z")
If you think about it, it makes sense that the brain itself cannot feel pain. Considering that all nerves lead to and are essentially ‘felt’ within the brain as an organ, how could \*\*\*it \*_have pain receptors? That’s have to loop back infinitely!_
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2015, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-parts-of-the-human-body-do-not-feel-pain/715025/24 "2015-03-16T19:25:28Z")
According to more than one gynecologist I’ve had, there are no nerve endings on the cervix. To which I say a hearty _bull shit_.:dubious:
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-parts-of-the-human-body-do-not-feel-pain/715025/25 "2015-03-16T19:31:12Z")
> [@dtilque](#):
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> When undergoing brain surgery, patients are usually only given topical anesthesia in the area of the incision. The patient is kept conscious and sometimes needs to give feedback to the surgeon on what kind of things they’re experiencing.
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Hey, it worked for Spock.
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-parts-of-the-human-body-do-not-feel-pain/715025/26 "2015-03-16T19:50:48Z")
I’ve been told that cartilage doesn’t feel pain. But when the cartilage in your knees wears away, the area around it become inflamed and you feel pain in the nearby muscles and possibly other tissues as the area swells.
I can testify that my gallstones didn’t cause pain where they were poking my gallbladder. It caused referred pain, mostly in my back. When the doctor said "does it hurt when I press . . . ", I found out that it was also referring to other places. He never did finish that sentence. I think the fact that I tried to crawl up his arm to the ceiling answered the question.
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### Author:  [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-parts-of-the-human-body-do-not-feel-pain/715025/27 "2015-03-16T20:04:02Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#):
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> According to more than one gynecologist I’ve had, there are no nerve endings on the cervix. To which I say a hearty _bull shit_.:dubious:
I second that. Those guys (and I’m sure they’re guys) have obviously never had a pap test OR a cervical biopsy. Or a uterine biopsy that required dilating the cervix.
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### Author:  [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2015, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-parts-of-the-human-body-do-not-feel-pain/715025/28 "2015-03-16T21:11:44Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#):
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> According to more than one gynecologist I’ve had, there are no nerve endings on the cervix. To which I say a hearty _bull shit_.:dubious:
How would you know enough to say “bullshit”? The viscera surrounding the cervix have pain receptors. If the cervix itself has no pain receptors, you wouldn’t know the difference.
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### Author:  [@Whatever4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whatever4)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-parts-of-the-human-body-do-not-feel-pain/715025/29 "2015-03-16T21:14:00Z")
Certainly not my heavily bandaged thumb, my **right** thumb, which foolishly thought it could outrun a razor blade.
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-parts-of-the-human-body-do-not-feel-pain/715025/30 "2015-03-17T00:24:02Z")
> [@Ignotus](#):
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> OP mentioned the brain, and I believe he is right.
I know the brain doesn’t feel pain, but why is severe headaches a sign of a brain aneurysm, and headaches also a symptom of a brain tumor? What’s the tumor or aneurysm putting pressure on if not the brain itself? The dura?
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### Author:  [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-parts-of-the-human-body-do-not-feel-pain/715025/31 "2015-03-17T23:36:09Z")
> [@Ignotus](#):
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> I have (thank God!) never had a liver biopsy; but I’m told they only use a local anaestetic on the skin and then stick the needle right into your liver - without any significant pain.
This is indeed true. The most painful part of the whole procedure is lying on your side for 6 hours after the biopsy and getting your blood pressure checked every half hour to ensure you have not been bleeding from a hepatic blood vessel.
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