corpuscles
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Explain why there are more Merkel’s disks and Meissner’s corpuscles in your fingertips than in your palms.
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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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Meissner’s corpuscles, found in glabrous skin, are rapidly adapting, encapsulated receptors that detect touch, low- frequency vibration, and flutter.
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Pacinian corpuscles and Ruffini endings are able to better detect fine touch.
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For Descartes the material world consists of divisible corpuscles.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
