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Where do goosebumps come from?
what part of the human system dictates when goosebumps happen? Does it have anything to do with regulating your body temperture?
I'm asking because i've had a fever for the past three days... and i get goosebumps right before my fever peaks.
6 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
The brain controls when you get goosebumps, when you are cold you raise the hair on your body and shiver to create heat. This probably causes your fever to spike.
- 1 decade ago
Goosebumps come from contraction of the piloerector muscles which make your hairs on your skin stand up.......and yes...it is run by your autonomic nervous system as a way of heat dispersion by causing more skin surface area to be exposed.
Source(s): im a doctor - popeyeLv 41 decade ago
Lisa p is correct. It is the erector pili muscles that excite the hair on our neck ect to stand up. The word for goosebumps is, piloerection. Pilo "hair" and erection "standing up".
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
The erector pili. it's a "muscle" in your skin, around the hair follicles.I'm not sure why, but it flexes when you get cold.
