The Pacinian corpuscle (also lamellar corpuscle, or Vater-Pacini corpuscle) is a low-threshold mechanoreceptor responsive to vibration or pressure, found...

Look up corpuscle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Corpuscle (/ˈkɔːrpəsəl/) or corpuscule, meaning a "small body", is often used as a synonym for particle...

A renal corpuscle (or Malpighian body) is the blood-filtering component of the nephron of the kidney. It consists of a glomerulus - a tuft of capillaries...

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

least two anatomical structures called a Malpighian corpuscle. They are also known as: Renal corpuscles — the initial filtering component of nephrons in...

functional unit of the kidney. It is composed of a renal corpuscle and a renal tubule. The renal corpuscle consists of a tuft of capillaries called a glomerulus...

The bulbous corpuscle, Ruffini ending or Ruffini corpuscle is a slowly adapting mechanoreceptor located in the cutaneous tissue between the dermal papillae...

029. PMID 17997501. Gulliver G (1875). "On the size and shape of red corpuscles of the blood of vertebrates, with drawings of them to a uniform scale...

type 2 (SA2) mechanoreceptors, with the Ruffini corpuscle end-organ (also known as the bulbous corpuscles), detect tension deep in the skin and fascia and...

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...

White blood cells (scientific name leukocytes), also called immune cells or immunocytes, are cells of the immune system that are involved in protecting...

Hassall's corpuscles (also known as thymic bodies) are structures found in the medulla of the human thymus, formed from eosinophilic type VI thymic epithelial...

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

The corpuscles of Stannius are special endocrine organs in the kidney in fish and are responsible for maintaining calcium balance. They are found only...

corpuscles emerged from the atoms of the trace gas inside his cathode ray tubes. He thus concluded that atoms were divisible, and that the corpuscles...

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

Eosinophils, sometimes called eosinophiles or, less commonly, acidophils, are a variety of white blood cells and one of the immune system components responsible...

The uterus (from Latin uterus, pl.: uteri) or womb (/wuːm/) is the organ in the reproductive system of most female mammals, including humans, that accommodates...

light states that light is made up of small discrete particles called "corpuscles" (little particles) which travel in a straight line with a finite velocity...

Look up beestings in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Colostrum (from Latin, of unknown origin) is the first form of milk produced by the mammary glands...

Leeuwenhoek, also Dutch, was the first to draw an illustration of "red corpuscles", as they were called. No further blood cells were discovered until 1842...

The corpuscles of Herbst or Herbst corpuscles are nerve-endings similar to the Pacinian corpuscle, found in the mucous membrane of the tongue, in pits...

of smaller bodies which I shall call corpuscles; these corpuscles are equal to each other; the mass of a corpuscle is the mass of the negative ion in a...

Computed Corpuscle Sectioning is a general method for determining the volume, profile area, and perimeter of a slab section of any computer-modeled three-dimensional...

slowly-adapting with multiple Merkel corpuscle end-organs and Type II slowly-adapting with single Ruffini corpuscle end-organs, as well as Type I rapidly-adapting...

compounds: If we assigne to the Corpuscles, whereof each Element consists, a peculiar size and shape ... such ... Corpuscles may be mingled in such various...

described by or attributed to Marcello Malpighi: Malpighian corpuscle (disambiguation) Renal corpuscle, the initial filtering component of nephrons in the kidneys...

Illustration of lamellated corpuscle Illustration of Ruffini corpuscle Illustration of skin Merkel cell Illustration of tactile corpuscle Illustration of root...

The glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule constitute a renal corpuscle, the basic filtration unit of the kidney. The rate at which blood is filtered...

adapting (contrast with the rapidly adapting Pacinian and Meissner's corpuscles).[citation needed] Merkel nerve endings exhibit an initial dynamic vigorous...