Tactile corpuscles or Meissner's corpuscles are a type of mechanoreceptor discovered by anatomist Georg Meissner (1829–1905) and Rudolf Wagner. This corpuscle...

The tactile corpuscles of Grandry or Grandry corpuscles are mechanoreceptors found in the beak skin and oral mucosa of aquatic birds. They were first...

called cutaneous receptors. They include mechanoreceptors such as tactile corpuscles that relay information about pressure and vibration; nociceptors for...

The bulboid corpuscles (end-bulbs of Krause, Krause corpuscles) are cutaneous receptors in the human body and that of other animals. The end-bulbs of Krause...

and contain either terminal networks of blood capillaries or tactile Meissner's corpuscles. Epidermis, papillary dermis and reticular dermis. The dermal...

body with less tactile acuity tend to have larger receptive fields. Lamellar corpuscles, or Pacinian corpuscles or Vater-Pacini corpuscle, are deformation...

The Pacinian corpuscle, lamellar corpuscle or Vater-Pacini corpuscle is one of the four major types of mechanoreceptors (specialized nerve ending) for...

species. Illustration of tactile receptors in the skin Illustration of lamellated corpuscle Illustration of Ruffini corpuscle Illustration of skin Merkel...

generated by mechanoreceptors such as Pacinian corpuscles, Merkel disk receptors, and tactile corpuscles. All of these receptors stimulate an action potential...

pathway Bulbous corpuscle (Ruffini corpuscle end-organ) Tactile corpuscle (Meissner corpuscle end-organ) Merkel nerve ending (Merkel corpuscle end-organ) Neuromuscular...

receptors of the skin. There are five basic types of tactile receptors: Pacinian corpuscle, Meissner's corpuscle, Ruffini endings, Merkel nerve endings, and free...

organ) Medium 6-12 35-75 II Aβ Merkel nerve ending, tactile corpuscle, lamellar corpuscle, Bulbous corpuscle Thin 1-6 4-36 III Aδ Free nerve ending None 0.2-1...

myelinated nerve endings. In humans, Merkel cells along with Meissner's corpuscles occur in the superficial skin layers, and are most densely clustered beneath...

Baroreceptor Mechanotransduction Lamellar corpuscle Tactile corpuscle Merkel nerve ending Bulbous corpuscle Campaniform sensilla Slit sensilla Stretch...

illness as a clinical entity, by Jakob Heine 1852: First description of tactile corpuscle by Georg Meissner and Rudolf Wagner 1868: Discovery of Langerhans...

Tactile discrimination is the ability to differentiate information through the sense of touch. The somatosensory system is the nervous system pathway...

inadequately process visual, auditory, olfactory (smell), gustatory (taste), tactile (touch), vestibular (balance), proprioception (body awareness), and interoception...

input. This fine sensation is detected by mechanoreceptors called tactile corpuscles that lie in the dermis of the skin close to the epidermis. When these...

Merkel cell-neurite complex at the base of the cell column, a lamellated corpuscle in the dermis just below the column and a series of free nerve endings...

Schwann cells associated to sensory structures, like tactile corpuscles and lamellar corpuscles. The Schwann cells of Remak fibers, or Remak Schwann cells...

the glabrous skin of humans: Pacinian corpuscles, Meissner's corpuscles, Merkel's discs, and Ruffini corpuscles. The Naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber)...

cynegetics. His discoveries pertained to the nerve endings in the tactile corpuscles of mammals, taste buds in birds, the neurofibrillary structure of...

nipple contain Golgi-Mazzoni, Vater-Pacini, and genital corpuscles. No Meissner's corpuscles and few organized nerve endings are present. There are concentrations...

feet, has three types of nerve terminations. The first one, Meissner's corpuscles are encapsulated nerve endings attached to the epidermis in the dermal...

Light touch is transduced by the encapsulated endings known as tactile (Meissner) corpuscles. Follicles are also wrapped in a plexus of nerve endings known...

Adam K.; Bolanowski, Stanley J. (January 2008). "Mesenteric and tactile Pacinian corpuscles are anatomically and physiologically comparable". Somatosensory...

responsible for the perception of cutaneous stimulation. Different types of tactile corpuscles allow us sensing thermal property of the object, pressure, vibration...

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complex of Merkel cell and neurite in the epidermis, and a lamellated corpuscle in the dermal connective tissue. Theodor Eimer described the discrete...

being Meissner corpuscles (tactile and touch receptors), Ruffini corpuscles (respond to skin stretch and torque), and Krause corpuscles. His name is also...