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Pacinian corpuscles
| small oval bodies terminating some of the minute branches of the sensory nerves in the skin of the fingers, mesentery, integument and other parts of the body; the corpuscula lamellosa; called also Vater's corpuscles and Vater-Pacini corpuscles. They are sensitive to pressure, and supposed to be tactile organs. |
See also: Pacinian
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lam·el·lat·ed cor·pus·clessmall oval bodies in the skin of the fingers, in the mesentery, tendons, and elsewhere, formed of concentric layers of connective tissue with a soft core in which the axon of a nerve fiber runs, splitting up into a number of fibrils that terminate in bulbous enlargements; they are sensitive to pressure. Synonym(s): corpuscula lamellosa, pacinian corpuscles, Vater corpuscles, Vater-Pacini corpuscleslam·el·lat·ed cor·pus·cles (lam'ĕ-lāt'ĕd kōr'pŭs-ĕlz) Small oval bodies in the skin of the fingers, in the mesentery, tendons, and elsewhere, formed of concentric layers of connective tissue with a soft core in which the axon of a nerve fiber runs, splitting up into a number of fibrils that terminate in bulbous enlargements; they are sensitive to pressure.
Synonym(s): corpuscula lamellosa [TA] , pacinian corpuscles. Pacini, Filippo, Italian anatomist, 1812-1883. Pacini bodiespacinian corpuscles - Synonym(s): Vater corpusclesVater-Pacini corpuscles - Synonym(s): Vater corpuscles |