corpuscles

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Pacinian corpuscles and Ruffini endings are able to better detect fine touch.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Pacinian corpuscles and Ruffini endings are able to sense deeper touch, such as deeper pressure.

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Merkel’s disks and Meissner’s corpuscles are found deeper in the skin and are able to sense deeper touch, such as deeper pressure.

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Merkel’s disks and Meissner’s corpuscles are found in more upper parts of the skin and detect fine touch.

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That is, the invisible corpuscles or atoms which, for a Cartesian, constitute light.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton