corpuscles
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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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Pacinian corpuscles and Ruffini endings are able to better detect fine touch.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Explain why there are more Merkel’s disks and Meissner’s corpuscles in your fingertips than in your palms.
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Like Merkel’s disks, Meissner’s corpuscles are not as plentiful in the palms as they are in the fingertips.
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Atoms and corpuscles are not machines, but their interaction is determined by size, shape and hardness, just as the interaction of the parts of a clock are.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
