corpuscles
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There are fewer Pacinian corpuscles and Ruffini endings in skin than there are Merkel’s disks and Meissner’s corpuscles.
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The large mechanoreceptors—Pacinian corpuscles and Ruffini endings—are located in the lower layers and respond to deeper touch.
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Deeper in the epidermis, near the base, are Ruffini endings, which are also known as bulbous corpuscles.
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Merkel’s disks and Meissner’s corpuscles are found in specialized regions and detect the amount of stretch.
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For Descartes the material world consists of divisible corpuscles.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
