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,...

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...

The Pacinian corpuscle, lamellar corpuscle or Vater-Pacini corpuscle is one of the four major types of cutaneous receptor a type of mechanoreceptor (specialized...

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

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

Mechanoreceptors Bulbous corpuscles (skin stretch) Bulboid corpuscles (Cold) Tactile corpuscles (changes in texture, slow vibrations) Pacinian corpuscles (deep pressure...

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