corpuscles

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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

Merkel’s disks and Meissner’s corpuscles are found in more upper parts of the skin and detect fine touch.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Explain why there are more Merkel’s disks and Meissner’s corpuscles in your fingertips than in your palms.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

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

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

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