corpuscles
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Meissner’s corpuscles, found in glabrous skin, are rapidly adapting, encapsulated receptors that detect touch, low- frequency vibration, and flutter.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Deeper in the epidermis, near the base, are Ruffini endings, which are also known as bulbous corpuscles.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
There are four primary tactile mechanoreceptors in human skin: Merkel’s disks, Meissner’s corpuscles, Ruffini endings, and Pacinian corpuscle; two are located toward the surface of the skin and two are located deeper.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Meissner’s corpuscles do not detect pain; this is signaled exclusively by free nerve endings.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Behind the epic variance of natural organisms—tall; short; wrinkled; smooth; green; yellow; brown—there were corpuscles of hereditary information, moving from one generation to the next.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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