corpuscles

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Pacinian corpuscles and Ruffini endings are able to sense deeper touch, such as deeper pressure.

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The large mechanoreceptors—Pacinian corpuscles and Ruffini endings—are located in the lower layers and respond to deeper touch.

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Like Merkel’s disks, Meissner’s corpuscles are not as plentiful in the palms as they are in the fingertips.

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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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For Descartes the material world consists of divisible corpuscles.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton