corpuscle

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“We now have evidence that something being made in the Meissner corpuscle is necessary,” he says, “but there are likely many more elements at play.”

From Science Magazine

Functionally, corpuscles thus served as atoms, while avoiding the mathematical objection against indivisibility.

From Nature

Meissner corpuscle These nerve receptors lie just beneath the epidermis of glabrous skin, where they detect movement across the skin and fluttering touch.

From Nature

He had come up with an elegant and decidedly homespun experiment to show light’s wavelike nature, and in doing so refuted Newton’s theory that light is made of corpuscles, or particles.

From Scientific American

Grumbles from trucks and cabs would shudder through the toxic ground, tickle the lamellar corpuscles in your feet and ricochet up your bones.

From The Guardian