Paper cut

A paper cut (English: paper cut ) is a sectional injury that was caused by the sharp edges of a sheet of paper. These are small, weak, bleeding wounds in " skin contact " with sharp paper edges may exist, such as in grasping movements rather rare and therefore mostly in the hand area - especially on a finger or fingertip - the injured person or it can occur when lick rubberized envelopes at the tip of the tongue.

They are among the mechanical wounds incurred. Paper cuts apply with regard to the small size and relatively painful. This pain sensation is caused by that in the superficial injury, the nerves usually not be severed, but only " cut ", and that the sharp edge of the paper, the skin layers more " tears " as cuts. In addition, the hands and especially the fingers contain relatively many and especially sensitive pain receptors.

Reception

The term paper cut is sometimes used to describe a painful process in the sense of the phrase " Small cause, big effect " or their reflection. So wearing an English song from the 2009 released album Battlefield of the U.S. singer Jordin Sparks, in which she sings about a past love, the title Papercut, and the chorus of the song is: " I'm okay, I'll survive. I only think about you half the time. [ ... ] It was only a paper cut. It's only a paper cut, a paper cut. " Dutch sculptor, painter and installation artist Paul van den Hout named his 2011 begun internet art project in which he, among other things current in the form of a blog " big " contemporary art and artists imagine and at the same time in the form an online store offers their own "small" art posters at minimum prices, as a poster project paper cut.