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	What makes you all goose-bumpy?
		Goose bumps are caused by a reflex called piloerection.
		Goose bumps are an automatic response, like sweating or increased heart rate.
		A young child gets goose bumps because he is in a poorly lit room with whistling winds and long shadows and his best friend telling him a story about someone getting killed by a ghost in this very room.
	www.infoweb.co.nz /what-makes-you-all-goose-bumpy (738 words)

	Goose bumps: Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Goose bumps are created when tiny muscles (One of the contractile organs of the body) at the base of each hair (Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head); helps prevent heat loss) -- called erector pilae -- contract and pull the hair erect.
		Goose bumps are often a response to cold: in animals covered with fur (The dressed hairy coat of a mammal) or hair, the erect hairs trap air to create a layer of insulation (The act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity).
		A skin condition that mimics goose bumps in appearance is known as keratosis pilaris (Keratosis characterized by hard conical elevations in the openings of sebaceous glands (especially of arms and thighs)).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/go/goose_bumps.htm (459 words)

	Goose bumps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Goose bumps (AE), also called goose pimples, goose flesh (BE), chicken skin (Hawaiian Pidgin), or cutis anserina, are the bumps on a person's skin at the base of body hairs which involuntarily develop when a person is cold or experiences strong emotions like fear.
		Goose bumps are created when tiny muscles at the base of each hair, known as arrectores pilorum, contract and pull the hair erect.
		Goose bumps are often a response to cold: in animals covered with fur or hair, the erect hairs trap air to create a layer of insulation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Goose_bumps (463 words)

	Encyclopedia: Goose bumps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Keratosis pilaris (KP) is a very common genetic follicular disease that is manifested by the appearance of rough bumps on the skin and hence colloqually referred to as chicken skin.
		"Goose bumps" are associated with a feeling of chilliness but are not necessarily associated with chills or fevers.
		Goose bumps raise the hairs on the body to form a layer of insulation.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Goose-bumps (1278 words)

	Blogaholics » Blog Archive » Fact of the day: porcupines get goose bumps
		I felt like looking up why we get goose bumps and in consequence learned that the same response in us which causes goose bumps is what causes a porcupine to raise his quills, and consequently is likely the same response which causes a cat to raise its hair.
		Goose bumps… the bumps on a person’s skin at the base of body hairs which involuntarily develop when a person is cold or experiences strong emotions like fear.
		Goose bumps are created when tiny muscles at the base of each hair, known as arrectores pilorum, contract and pull the hair erect.
	www.blogaholics.ca /archives/2006/06/fact-of-the-day-porcupines-get-goose-bumps.html (275 words)

	Goose Bumps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Developing goose flesh when becoming cold is thought to be a vestige of when man had more hair.
		The goose bump forms when the tiny muscle attached to the bottom of the hair follicle tugs on the hair, hoisting it upright.
		Goose bumps occur frequently when someone (especially a child--but not a baby) gets simple cold or stomach virus.
	bmhosp.client.web-health.com /web-health/topics/GeneralHealth/generalhealthsub/generalhealth/skin&hair&nails/goose_bumps.html (291 words)

	Goose Bumps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Developing goose flesh when becoming cold is thought to be a vestige of when man had more hair.
		The goose bump forms when the tiny muscle attached to the bottom of the hair follicle tugs on the hair, hoisting it upright.
		Goose bumps occur frequently when someone (especially a child--but not a baby) gets simple cold or stomach virus.
	tjsamson.client.web-health.com /web-health/topics/GeneralHealth/generalhealthsub/generalhealth/skin&hair&nails/goose_bumps.html (291 words)

	Goose Bumps - Skin diseases, conditions and procedures on MedicineNet.com
		Goose bumps are a temporary local change in the skin.
		And it is these tiny elevations we perceive as goose bumps.
		"Goose bumps" are listed in the Merriam- Webster Collegiate Dictionary (as two words in the plural).
	www.medicinenet.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=6842 (460 words)

	The Blue Sloth: What causes goose bumps? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Goose bumps are caused by a reflex called piloerection.
		Goose bumps are an automatic response, like sweating or increased heart rate.
		A young child gets goose bumps because he is in a poorly lit room with whistling winds and long shadows and his best friend telling him a story about someone getting killed by a ghost in this very room.
	artweld.blogs.com /bluesloth/2004/05/charlotte_obser.html (793 words)

	Cutis anserina definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
		Cutis anserina: Better known as goose bumps, a temporary local change in the skin when it becomes rougher due to erection of little muscles, as from cold, fear, or excitement.
		Goose bumps are also referred to as "gooseflesh." A fancier term for this familiar phenomenon is "horripilation." Horripilation was compounded from the Latin "horrere", to stand on end + "pilus", hair = hair standing on end.
		Some biologists believe that goose bumps evolved as part of the fight-or-flight reaction along with heart rate increases that send the heart racing while blood rushes to the muscles to give them additional oxygen.
	www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=7112 (377 words)

	goose - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		The verbal meaning "jab in the rear" (c.1880) is possibly from resemblance of the upturned thumb to a goose's beak.
		Goose bumps (1933) was earlier goose flesh (c.1810) and goose skin (1785).
		Goose step (1806) originally was a military drill to teach balance; "to stand on each leg alternately and swing the other back and forth" (which, presumably, reminded someone of a goose's way of walking); in reference to "marching without bending the knees" (as in Nazi military reviews) it apparently is first recorded 1916.
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/goose (717 words)

	Goose — FactMonster.com
		In the Egyptian hieroglyphics the emblem of a vain silly fellow is a goose.
		goose - goose goose, common name for large wild and domesticated swimming birds related to the duck and the...
		goose bumps - goose bumps goose bumps or goose pimples:see gooseflesh.
	www.factmonster.com /dictionary/brewers/goose.html (415 words)

	What are goose bumps? in The AnswerBank: How it Works
		Goose bumps, sometimes known as goose flesh or goose pimples, or technically cutis ansirina, (which translates from the Latin as goose skin) are a temporary change in the appearance of the skin, usually when you're cold, angry or scared.
		If you're goose bumps are caused by being cold, the erect body hairs trap air escaping from the body, acting as extra insulation.
		Goose bumps and the advantages they provide are a vestige from the days when humans were covered with thicker hair.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article1530.html (306 words)

	Poynter Online - Goose Bumps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Property crime for the city is up 11 percent this year, goosed by a 43 percent jump in car thefts.
		What caught Doc's attention was the use of the word "goosed." To be honest, Doc thought "to goose" was a naughty expression -- not dirty, but naughty -- and was thus surprised to find it in a conventional news story.
		The original Oxford English Dictionary showed no reference to a naughty "goose," which did not surprise Doc since the OED often ignored the naughty words or the naughtier meanings of words.
	www.poynter.org /dg.lts/id.1/aid.2261/column.htm (266 words)

	Getting goose bumps
		With central and western populations of snow geese and their smaller cousins, Ross geese, devastating the Canadian tundra where they nest, officials hope hunters will be able to curb goose numbers before starvation and disease strike the birds, along with other waterfowl and shorebirds.
		But Baylor and others say the electronic goose greetings haven't proved to be the panacea hunters thought they would be.
		He and his partner, Clinton Miller, alternate guiding hunters and scouting goose flight patterns, with the scout logging 350 miles per day to locate fields where the birds are feeding, and making arrangements with landowners.
	www.rockypreps.com /dentry/0312dentr.shtml (739 words)

	Super Crispy Roasted Goose - Allrecipes
		Cook the rice the night before roasting the goose: place the rice in a pot with 5 cups water, and bring to a boil.
		Remove goose from the oven, and transfer to a larger pan.
		I suggest people who try to cook goose for the first time should realize that a goose of same weight of a turkey would give less meat.
	allrecipes.com /Recipe/Super-Crispy-Roasted-Goose/Detail.aspx (694 words)

	mi-reporter.com - Blue Goose-bumps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gross said that Blue Goose Productions is successful because their skills complement one another, with Hoare doing the selling or bidding on jobs and production work while Gross is allowed to focus on directing the projects that they film.
		Blue Goose has had an unprecedented allegiance with the Mariners, producing 75 commercials for the organization in the last 10 years, and using miles of film for under 10 commercial spots a year.
		Blue Goose has garnered 118 awards for thier its commercials since 1992, including five prestigious CLIO awards, which are the Oscars of the commercial industry.
	www.mi-reporter.com /sited/story/html/162471 (1439 words)

	Goose Bumps - Castle of Spirits Ghost Story
		It was dark, and she began telling us of a man that lived in one of the houses nearby and how his wife had strangled him and pulled him behind the house and decapitated him.
		When we entered the woods, I noticed my arms were swelling with goose bumps.
		Now remember, watch out for goose bumps, because they might actually mean there is someone else there.
	www.castleofspirits.com /stories02/goosebumps.html (990 words)

	LiveScience.com: Life's Little Mysteries - What Causes Goose Bumps?
		Like sneezing, goose bumps (also known as the pilomotor reflex) represent one of your body's automatic responses, meant to increase your chances of survival in the harsh world.
		When the muscle fiber connected to a hair follicle tightens, the skin surrounding the follicle puckers into a goose bump, pulling the connected hair straight up.
		Unfortunately, human hair is so thin and short as to render the reflex virtually useless, but in hairier mammals goose bumps don't just look silly.
	www.livescience.com /mysteries/061007_goose_bumps.html (157 words)

	gooseflesh - Information from Reference.com
		a rough condition of the skin, resembling that of a plucked goose, induced by cold or fear; horripilation.
		Also called goose pimples, goose bumps, goose skin.
		In response to cold or certain emotional states, such as fear or rage, the smooth muscles of the subsurface layer (dermis) of skin tend to contract, causing the skin to pucker and body hair to stand erect.
	www.reference.com /browse/all/gooseflesh (227 words)

	Keratosis Pilaris
		Keratosis Pilaris is characterized by the appearance of small rough bumps on the skin.
		She did an excellent job, explaining this chronic skin condition to me, but unfortunately the treatments that I was prescribed were just to harsh for my sensitive kp skin.
		The bumps on my body aren't as bad now as they were back then, but they are still there, (at age 34) and they do still bother me...
	spaces.msn.com /members/keratosis-pilaris (574 words)

	rogerbourland.com » Blog Archive » Emotional goose bumps
		My former partner was incapable of experiencing emotional goose bumps, only I’m-cold goose bumps, and maybe that is why we broke up after 14 years.
		It manifests an overwhelming excitement about whatever the trigger is. Goose bumps are interesting and often overlooked body communication.
		Harmony —not necessarily tonality— is the key to activating the listener’s Emotional Goose Bumps.
	rogerbourland.com /redblackwindow/2006/08/04/emotional-goose-bumps (299 words)

	Goose Bumps - Health and Medical Information produced by doctors - MedicineNet.com
		Goose bumps are a temporary local change in the skin.
		"Goose bumps" are listed in the Merriam- Webster Collegiate Dictionary (as two words in the plural).
		Medicine does not use a horrible term such as "horripilation" and rarely resorts to the commonplace words, goose bumps or gooseflesh.
	www.asiamedicinenet.com /Script/Main/Art.asp?li=AMN&ArticleKey=6842 (516 words)

	There are no such things as a Vestigial Organ creation or evolution tonsils Appendix wisdom teeth whales legs goose ...
		The whole point of goose bumps is for animals that have thick fur coats.
		The goose bumps, which are in response to cold weather or fear, raise the ends of the hair, which, in response to cold, form a thicker barrier between cold air and skin which kind of like trading a thin blanket for a thicker one (it makes you even warmer).
		Neither hair nor goose bumps have to be explained in evolutionary terms.
	www.angelfire.com /mi/dinosaurs/vestigial.html (1894 words)

	Goose Bumps on Nipples
		I have had goose bumps on the inner portion of my areola for as long as I remember.
		I have heard of montgomery tubercles that show up as goose bumps when you are pregnant but I've never been pregnant and I've always had them.
		I have always had goose bumps on my nipples when they are hard.
	www.medhelp.org /forums/WomensHealth/messages/1191.html (109 words)

	Bird lovers get goose bumps over rare city find - National - theage.com.au
		David De Angelis' spotting of a magpie goose at the Melbourne Wildlife Sanctuary in Bundoora is believed to be the first city sighting of the bird in decades.
		The 20-year-old was doing a casual shift at the sanctuary at Bundoora's La Trobe University when he spotted a magpie goose, a rare bird considered extinct in Victoria by the early 1900s until a captive breeding program aided their return.
		Mr Paras hit the phones to alert fellow bird lovers, and dispatched other staff members to the lake with cameras to photograph the magpie goose, which is believed to be a young male.
	www.theage.com.au /news/national/bird-lovers-get-goose-bumps-over-rare-city-find/2007/01/09/1168104983868.html (636 words)

	Recursive goose bumps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In this exercise after having goose bumps we try to hold the feeling as much as it is possible.
		If we are aware how the goose bumped areas of the skin change and disappear, the observation itself will bring new goose bumps.
		If we can switch to a mind condition in that we constantly get leaps of goose bumps from the world around, we will get closer to the state of a Buddha's mind.
	rillocky.anton.org /mystical/ex16.html (176 words)

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