corpuscles
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Pacinian corpuscles and Ruffini endings are able to sense deeper touch, such as deeper pressure.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
There are fewer Pacinian corpuscles and Ruffini endings in skin than there are Merkel’s disks and Meissner’s corpuscles.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Like Merkel’s disks, Meissner’s corpuscles are not as plentiful in the palms as they are in the fingertips.
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
