Pacinian

Dr. TIFFANY FIELD (Director, Touch Research Institute, University of Miami, Florida): They're actually called Pacinian corpuscles, and they receive pressure stimulation.

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However, some of the nerve endings, called Pacinian corpuscles, are relatively deep - about 2 millimetres - under the skin, raising questions about how they could detect such subtle vibrations.

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These nerve endings, called Pacinian corpuscles, are connected to sensory neurons, which signal the brain.

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The mechanoreceptors that do this job are called Pacinian corpuscles.

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If a touch becomes stronger, it eventually activates the Pacinian corpuscle of a pressure-receptor.

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The pressure-receptors end in a Pacinian corpuscle, described in 1830 by the Italian anatomist Filippo Pacini.

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From time to time some small organ, which had escaped earlier observers, has been pointed out, -- such parts as the _tensor tarsi_, the otic ganglion, or the Pacinian bodies; but some of the best anatomical works are those which have been classic for many generations.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862

The Pacinian corpuscles are composed of connective tissue arranged in separate layers around a narrow central cavity called the core (Fig. 145).

Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools

* — Spread out the mesentery from the intestine of a cat and hold it between the eye and the light: Pacinian corpuscles will appear as small translucent bodies having the general form of grains of wheat.

Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools

The largest of the simple forms of sense organs are bodies visible to the naked eye and called, from their discoverer Pacini, the _Pacinian corpuscles_.

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