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Pacinian corpuscle
Nerve endings in the skin responsible for sensitivity to pressure & vibration. They are numerous in the distal digits. Pacinian corpuscles respond to vibrations generated by textured surfaces moving across the fingerprint ridges.
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mechanoreceptor (tactile receptor)
corpuscle (corpusculum)
References
- Scheibert J et al.
The role of fingerprints in the coding of tactile information
probed with a biomimetic sensor.
Science 2009 Jan 29;
PMID: 19179493
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1166467
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fingerprint