corpuscles
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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.
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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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Merkel’s disks and Meissner’s corpuscles are found deeper in the skin and detect fine touch.
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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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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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