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your skin saluting a danger that hasn't existed since you had fur
means The small bumps that rise on your skin when you're cold, scared, or moved — caused by tiny muscles pulling each hair upright.
from A compound of 'goose' and 'bump,' named because the pimpled, plucked skin of a goose looks just like a chilled human arm. English has played with the image for centuries — 'goose skin' and 'goose flesh' came first, with 'goosebumps' arriving as a later American variant. The underlying reflex even has a proper name: horripilation, from Latin 'horrere' (to bristle, to stand on end) — the same root that gives us 'horror.'
- muscle name
- tiny arrector pili muscles yank each hair upright
- useless flex
- meant to puff fur you no longer have
- emotional trigger
- music can spark them via dopamine surges
- animal kin
- same reflex makes cats and porcupines look bigger
- medical term
- called piloerection or cutis anserina
goosebumps tv series — r.l. stine's horror anthology with 91 episodes aired 1995-1998
goosebumps book series — over 400 million copies sold since 1992 by r.l. stine
goosebumps movie 2015 — film starring jack black as r.l. stine, grossed $150 million worldwide