corpuscles

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

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

There are fewer Pacinian corpuscles and Ruffini endings in skin than there are Merkel’s disks and Meissner’s corpuscles.

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

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Deeper in the epidermis, near the base, are Ruffini endings, which are also known as bulbous corpuscles.

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For Descartes the material world consists of divisible corpuscles.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton